Welcome to the Book Bus

Improving children’s lives one book at a time

The Book Bus aims to improve child literacy rates in Africa and South America by providing children with books and the inspiration to read them.

As any avid reader will appreciate, books impart knowledge, fire the imagination and open up new horizons; they are also a tremendous source of enjoyment.

Reading isn’t just one of life’s great pleasures however, as the world enters the computer age and employers seek literate employees so reading has become a critical life skill. Access to the written word has never been more important and illiterate societies risk being left behind as their populations struggle for social and economic survival.

The Book Bus is currently working to improve literacy rates at a community level in Zambia, Malawi and Ecuador. Our library work, book donations and assisted reading programme is helping strengthen the reading culture in schools resulting in a more confident reading population that is better equipped for the future.

Thanks to the support of our generous donors and enthusiastic volunteers the Book Bus
has been able to make a real difference to many needy communities in Africa and South America. Please explore our website to discover how you can help us keep the Book Bus literacy campaign in motion.

The Book Bus Foundation is a charity registered
in England and Wales.

Registered Charity No: 1117357