RIF principles

1. RIF wants every child to believe in the value of books and the importance of reading.

2. RIF helps people to run local projects that provide children and their families with the fundamental resources children need to become motivated to read.

With these principles in mind, RIF projects always:

• provide books for children to explore and keep
• include every child in the group - no child should feel left out
• ensure each child can choose which book to keep for themselves
• use imaginative activities to spark a child's desire to read.

RIF respects local knowledge when it comes to selecting which motivational activities to introduce, which children to serve, the range of books the children can choose from, and which segments of the community to involve in their activities.