All Children Count

What does ONE seat in a classroom actually mean? 🪑✨
To a child, it isn’t just a piece of furniture. It is the exact place where their entire world opens up! 🌟

When we invest in filling a seat for a child, we aren’t just funding school enrollment—we are setting off a beautiful ripple effect that builds a foundation for life. As you can see, filling just one seat unlocks four incredible pillars for a child:

🏠 ACCESS: A Foundation for Education
A physical place in a classroom provides entry into structured learning environments, opening doors that would otherwise remain closed.

📚 LITERACY: The Key to Knowledge
It gives them basic reading and writing skills, critical thinking development, and the tools to explore the world through books and resources.

❤️ BELONGING: Community & Identity
A seat means acceptance by peers and teachers. It provides a safe, supportive space where children feel deeply valued, included, and heard.

🚀 FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES: Unlocking Potential
Ultimately, that seat is a pathway to higher education, diverse career choices, economic empowerment, and breaking cycles of poverty.

At All Children Count, our mission is simple: ensure that no child is left standing on the outside looking in. Every single seat we fill changes a life narrative. But true community transformation takes all of us! 🙌💙

🤝 How you can be a part of our Fill the Seat campaign today:

1️⃣ Sponsor a Seat: Your support directly funds enrollment, vital resources, and learning materials for a child who needs it most.
Click link: https://www.allchildrencountinternational.com/donate

2️⃣ Share This Post: Help us spread the word! Amplify this message with your friends, family, and community groups to help us reach more families.

3️⃣ Join the Conversation: Let us know in the comments—what did having a safe place to learn mean for you growing up?

Let’s fill every seat together. Because when all children are counted, our entire community thrives! 🌍✨

👇 Click the link below to change a life today!
https://www.allchildrencountinternational.com/donate

📖✨ Building a Reading Culture One Celebration at a Time ✨📖

At All Children Count, we believe donating books is only the beginning. Children also need opportunities to engage with those books, build confidence, and experience the joy of reading aloud.

That’s why we recently launched a new event called the ACC Reading Celebration at two schools where books were recently donated.
Checkout video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/f6kE3jjwIjo?si=QAsXgZAI1kUcdnZI

More than 1,000 students from Grades 1–4 attended the celebrations. In preparation, teachers nominated student readers from each class, and classmates voted for who would represent them by reading in English or Afaan Oromo. The selected students practiced their reading passages with support from both teachers and peers and prepared to answer comprehension questions about the text.

The celebration day was filled with excitement and encouragement. We started with music and movement activities, including “Roly Poly,” to energize the students for storytime. We then shared the beloved children’s book From Head to Toe by Eric Carle before inviting our “Super Readers” to the front.

The students exceeded expectations. They demonstrated confidence, strong pronunciation, expression, and comprehension while reading in front of hundreds of their peers.

The event ended with snacks, smiley face stickers, and countless smiles.

These moments matter. Reading aloud builds confidence. Community celebration builds motivation. And access to books helps children discover their voices.

We are proud of every student, teacher, and school that made this event such a success.