Meet the founder

In 2014, 20-year-old Sam van Tol went on holiday to South Africa with his parents. There he saw for the first time what real poverty means. On the terrace of a restaurant, he wanted nothing more than to give away his food to the people without a roof over their heads. At schools in slums, he saw children in class without paper and pen. “How do you ever learn to read and write without practice?” he wondered.

Back home, Sam dived into researching the causes of extreme poverty. He found that illiteracy is a major driver of poverty and that 763 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate worldwide! In South Africa he had seen where this all starts: in schools where children don't have any writing materials!

This inspired him to develop erasable writing material and to get that writing material to children in Africa who otherwise cannot learn to read and write. Correctbook was born! With the help of this reusable writing material, children can practice endlessly. According to the statistics, if they learn to read and write as a result, their chances of a better future increase significantly.