JANE AUSTEN

LITERACY FOUNDATION

Everyone, no matter their gender or circumstance, has the right to learn basic literacy skills. Many of us are very lucky and have the opportunity to receive an education where we can learn these invaluable skills. However, there are communities around the world where this is not so. Literacy rates in developing, low-income and war-torn countries are staggering and the gap between men and women even more so.

Founded by Caroline Jane Knight, the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation is a registered not-for-profit organisation, created to harness the global passion for Jane Austen to improve literacy rates. The foundation works with the Austen community to support literacy programs and raise funds to provide literacy materials for communities in need across the world—in honour of Jane.

The foundation is run by volunteers. Operating costs are kept at a minimum and are privately funded; one hundred per cent of donations received are used to fund literacy resources. For more information or to make a donation,
visit www.janeaustenlf.org.