2025 Annual Impact Report - Report - Page 4
2025: Record
In 2025 we transformed the lives of
79,402
children, their families and communities!
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Since 1997, Rise Alliance for
Being school-ready is the single
79,402 is more than a number.
Children (formerly WWO) has
greatest predictor of academic
Behind this is 79,402 individuals—
worked with the world’s most
and economic success...and
many of whom were children
vulnerable children, specifically in
our best chance at breaking the
struggling silently, largely invisible
communities experiencing
cycle of poverty for millions of
to their caregivers—who
violence, displacement, and
children around the world.
themselves are drowning in toxic
poverty.
That’s why in 2025—amidst record
stress.
In almost all cases, children living
global upheaval, devastating
Because 90% of the brain is
in these situations are not
international aid cuts, and the
developed before age 6, we
prepared to succeed in school—
highest rate of violent conflict
have a once-in-a-lifetime chance
and often drop out before age
since World War II—Rise rose to
to transform a child’s life and set
10. As a result, in Sub-Saharan
the occasion, transforming the
the stage for lifelong learning.
Africa, 9 out of 10 children at age
lives of 79,402 children and their
10 are unable to read.
families.
This is where you come in.
