Some years ago, Save the Children International did a joint campaign to battle analfabetism. Me and art director Pelle Lundquist helped raise money for that great initiative. As our world is constantly on fire – a sad fact that benefits more acute but often less progressive NGO programs – we choose to show some less obvious and more severe aspects of not being able to read when you live in more challenging parts of the world.

Photographer Peter Alendahl.