Hands Across the Sea, Inc.

Hands Across the Sea, a Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization, brings an uncommon dedication to raising the literacy levels of Caribbean children through targeted, relevant assistance to selected schools, libraries, community reading programs, and after-school youth centers on the islands of Antigua, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. Since its inception in 2007, Hands Across the Sea has shipped over 500,000 books to 400 schools and community reading programs, serving an estimated 125,000 children through our Caribbean Literacy and School Support (CLASS) program. Hands Across the Sea helps disadvantaged children become confident readers, while equipping teachers with the resources they need to engage and encourage their students. Hands Across the Sea supports the existing literacy initiatives of each country's ministry of education, and we work directly with school principals, teachers, and U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers. Hands Across the Sea helps create and rejuvenate sustainable school libraries that give children access to new, age- and culturally-appropriate literacy-building books and other materials.