Ukraine

Learn how we are helping families and displaced children – and how you can help.

Kashfi’s Children gifts stories to educate, and to foster tolerance, positive change, and hope.

"There's always room for a story that can
transport people to another place"

–J.K. Rowling

What we do

We are a non-profit, which produces beautifully illustrated children’s books in dual languages and gives them to refugees from war zones and children facing hardship around the world. We partner with small local initiatives and NGOs to get books to the world’s forgotten and marginalised. 

Afghanistan

Almost 4 million children are out of school - 60% of them are girls.

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Most of Pakistan’s poor or rural families have no access to quality reading materials.

Pakistan

Ukraine

With war raging in Ukraine the lives of the country’s 7.5 million children are in turmoil.

ukraine

Mexico

Mexico is one of Latin America’s most densely populated countries. It’s estimated that a quarter of Mexican children are living in extreme poverty with no access to education

Mexico

Guatemala

Over half the population of Guatemala lives in poverty, with almost 30% of children working.

Guatemala

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America, thousands of children are living on the streets of Managua the capital.

Nicaragua

Panama

Despite strong economic growth, Panama’s rural areas lack the schools and resources of its cities and the country has one of Central America’s worst distributions of wealth.

Panama

South Africa

According to Amnesty International in South Africa, a child’s experience of education still very much depends on where they are born, how wealthy they are, and the colour of their skin.

South Africa

Zimbabwe

Of just over 6 million children in Zimbabwe, almost 5 million live in poverty, with 1.6 million living in extreme poverty.

Zimbabwe

Why stop there?

If funds allow we plan to gift books to children in India, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras and anywhere else we find a need.

My library is a camel

“Stories can transcend fixed patterns of emotion and behaviour which may be getting in the way of learning and emotional well-being"

Ezra Hewing, Suffolk Mind and Kashfi Khan, London teacher