Founded in 1997 by anthropologist Eliza Woloson, Global Education Fund listens to the educational needs of the orphanage community first and foremost. As a result, in addition to filling libraries in orphanages with books, Global Education Fund has sent interns to communities with high illiteracy rates, implemented formalized storytelling and reading groups and physically built libraries.
The Global Education Fund has started literacy centers in the following countries:
Colombia
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Peru
Jamaica
Panama
Ecuador
Honduras
Uganda
Thailand
Ghana
India
Cambodia
Sri Lanka
