Out of 176 living languages listed, most are endangered, and spoken by less than 2 million American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts. The list includes famous names like Apache, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Comanche, Cree, Inuktitut, Mohawk, and Navaho. Key is the program's record of motivating children and youth to read and write in their own language. It is also a means to communicate their culture to outsiders using their students as agents, supported by teachers.
Most volunteers are teachers and parents.
Since the start 10 years ago, over 175,000 kids from 137 countries on all continents have participated in our activities. Their works may be used as learning material in each community's language. Currently, the program runs in parallel in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, and Saami. Romanian and Catalan are scheduled to be added soon. To teachers, it is a means to classroom instruction within writing, research, social studies, history, geography, foreign languages, economics, mathematics, science, the arts, current awareness, as well as personal development, Internet networking skills, information and communications technology skills.