Every year clubs are encouraged to carry out literacy activities, which in turn will qualify for a Rotary International Literacy award. These awards are rarely given promotion through the RIBI system. The D4L project is an important part of literacy provision and we hope that clubs will want to commit to these awards.

Please download the Literacy Awards leaflets or «contact D4L» for hard copies.

The leaflets are in pdf format and will open in a separate browser window.

Why support Literacy?

Literacy changes lives: an advocacy resource

In 2007, an American publication, To Read or Not to Read, set out a US perspective on the wider benefits of literacy. The document highlighted many areas familiar to English literacy research. To allow individuals to better understand the wider benefits of literacy, the National Literacy Trust has compiled this equivalent document for England.

This document pulls together existing research about the impact of literacy on five areas in a person's life: economic well-being, aspirations, family life, health and civic/cultural engagement. It presents overwhelming evidence that literacy has a significant relationship with a person’s happiness and success. It gives a clear indication of the dangers of poor literacy and also the benefits of improving literacy for the individual, the community, the workforce and the nation.