Teaching mothers: the Multiplication Factor.
Why?
Today, 3 in 4 children in mid and low income countries are growing up illiterate. Without the basics of literacy, the futures of hundreds of millions of children around the world, and their societies, are at grave risk.
Reaching these boys and girls is not as simple as sitting them down in front of a desk: sustainability starts with stabilizing the slum they wake up in every morning. That's why we start with mothers - who do reach these children.
If you teach a mother, she invests that learning back into her community. She’ll use her empowerment to stand up for women’s rights, children’s rights, peace, and equality. She’ll use her success to improve life for everyone in the slum.

Gem Munro has devoted his life and career to improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged people across Canada and abroad. Pursuit of this objective carried him into residence in unfortunate communities across most of Canada, before carrying him overseas.
He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Amarok Society – Start With Mothers, a registered Canadian charity that provides education programmes to the very poor in South Asia and Africa.
As well, Gem is a bestselling author and artist whose new ten-book series, And Where the Wind Spun Them, the first volume of which he has with him today, follows the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little brother who struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of very poor children in the world today.
Sale of this book supports Amarok Society. For their work, Gem and his wife, Dr Tanyss Munro, were recipients of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals.
For their work, Gem and his wife, Dr Tanyss Munro, were recipients of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals.
Note: in 2027 the name will change from Amarok Society to Start With Mothers.