Equipping the Next Generation
through Literacy & Learning
We…
Equip
Train
Because…
Million illiterate adults over
15 years around the globe
Million people around the globe are unemployed because
they are illiterate
%
of people in Africa are literate
Since 2012
52,900
students have been provided access to a brand new library packed with both E-readers and primary aged books because of Matthew E. Russell Foundation.
Libraries Built Since 2012
Teachers with Access
Over
Students with Access
Ithongasi Full Service School
Mdatya Primary School
Stanford Senior Primary School
Zamokuhle J.S.S.
Ngcongo Primary School
Lingelethu Senior Primary School
Plangeni Senior Primary School
Free Methodist School
Mdatya P.S. Library Expansion
Vulindlela Comprehensive Technical School
Reading is the gateway to learning…
Click below to hear one of the students recite a poem.
“Reading is the gateway
skill that makes all other
learning possible.”
-Barack Obama, Former President of the United States
Latest News & Articles
Preparing Shipments for Our Next Library Project
This is a pivotal part of us providing a library to a desiring school. We depend on our annual book drive to bring in the much-needed resources to fill each library.
MERF Announces 2023 Library Project
Ebenezer JSS was established in 1914 in temporary structures erected by the community so that their children could have somewhere to be educated. Over the years additional structures were built to meet enrollment, they are called blocks (for classrooms).
Welcome Our New Media and Literacy Trainer
We welcome Ntombifuthi Gladness Phakathi known also as Futhi, to the MER Foundation family as the New Media and Literacy Trainer for our school libraries. She is the librarian for Ithongasi FSS, a school of excellence, in province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Little Eden Primary School
We are thrilled to share some exciting news! Life Connection Ministries, in collaboration with the Matthew E. Russell Foundation, has recently purchased a private primary school in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
