![]() If an adult says the first half, many children can chant the second half. Our books are based on wise Ethiopian sayings that often rhyme in Amharic. ![]() Only 5.5% of children attend pre-school or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is 49%. ![]() Ethiopia’s population is 44% children, ages 0-14 (43 million out of 97 million total). ![]() Profits from books sales will be used to create, print, and distribute more Ready Set Go Books to kids in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country. Learn more about the history of Axum in this early-reader Ready Set Go Book.Ready Set Go Books, an Open Hearts Big Dreams Project, is focused on increasing the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. A Persian writer described Axum as one of the four greatest powers in the world at the time-along with Persia, Rome and China. Meanwhile, people from Egypt, southern Arabia, Europe and Asia came to visit and sometimes live. Ships went out from Axum to trade with many other countries. It was ruled by a king and nobles with maybe about 20,000 farmers and craftspeople who had their own system of writing, coins and agriculture. Northern Ethiopia was the home to an ancient, powerful city and a kingdom called Axum.
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