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Donates pre-loved books to incarcerated people in Malaysian prisons. Born from conversations with a former Sungai Buloh death-row inmate who spent 20 years reading to survive. 10,000+ books collected since Nov 2024.

✦ 10,000+ books · Sungai Buloh Prison

Runs a 27-week structured Literacy Toolkit — phonics, fluency, vocabulary — in underserved schools and communities across Malaysia, developed by local teachers for local classrooms.

✦ 36,262 students · 136 schools

Runs KidzREAD, a research-backed early literacy program for B40 children. 100/100 transparency score. Tax-exempt donations. Also operates Super Sarapan (school nutrition) because hungry children can't learn.

✦ Multiple programs · Klang Valley & beyond

Places trained educators in Malaysia's highest-need schools — including Orang Asli community schools. 503,035 students impacted since 2012. 2022 Merdeka Award recipient.

✦ 503,035 students · 1,198 schools

Free English language education and digital literacy for B40 communities. Operating in Malaysia and 6 other countries. 800,000+ lives reached over 25 years.

✦ 800,000+ lives · 7 countries

CSR arm of BookXcess — runs book donation drives with a 1-for-1 model. 200,000 free books given away in April 2025 alone. Partners with orphanages, charities, and low-income communities nationwide.

✦ 200,000+ books in 2025

Free tutoring and safe learning space for 89 children — undocumented, refugee, and urban-poor — in KL's Chow Kit area, where many are denied formal schooling.

✦ 89 students · Primary to Form 4

Establishes village pre-schools and trains local teachers specifically for Orang Asli communities — where adult literacy was only ~51% as recently as 2008 versus the national 93%.

✦ Orang Asli villages, Peninsula Malaysia

Indonesia's largest dedicated children's literacy NGO. 70% of Indonesian 15-year-olds scored below minimum reading competency on PISA. YLAI works in 14 provinces from Aceh to Papua.

✦ 1M+ children · 15,000+ schools · 121 districts

Runs 24-hour community reading houses (rumah baca) open to everyone — not just enrolled students. Street libraries and tutoring for children in underserved rural and urban areas.

School library development and teacher training. Active since 2006, operating across multiple Indonesian provinces. Part of Room to Read's global network that has reached 60M+ children.

Partners with public elementary schools to build a reading culture: read-a-thons, teacher training, and classroom book access. NBER research confirmed 20% more children reading weekly after one year.

✦ 750+ schools · ~150,000 students

The world's most ambitious prison reading program: 60 hours of reading earns 15 days off a sentence. Scaling to all 467 jails nationwide. Philippines is the first country in Asia to legally link reading to sentence reduction.

✦ 13 jail libraries · 467 jails planned

Saturday literacy and numeracy classes plus a community library for vulnerable children aged 4–16 in Jalan Kukoh — one of Singapore's most under-resourced areas. "Every child literate for life."

Supports children with low reading ability through volunteer-led sessions. 800+ children served; 800+ volunteers as of 2022.

✦ 800+ children · 800+ volunteers

The largest dedicated children's literacy NGO in the developing world. Active across all of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Myanmar) and South Asia and Africa.

✦ 60M+ children · 29 countries · $1B invested

New York-based nonprofit sending free books to incarcerated people across 50+ prisons and jails. Every RM 1 invested in prison education saves RM 4–5 in incarceration costs within 3 years.

✦ 10,000+ books · 50+ NY prisons

Supports vulnerable children in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines — through school sponsorships, literacy projects, and community programs.

✦ 95,000+ children/year