Joker: Charity action for the anniversary of Munster, February 10, 2009 – In use for the promotion of reading: with a donation of at least 10,000 euros and various actions on the subject read the book mailers is Joker the Federal Association of literacy and basic education support this year. The specialist for rest requirements and special editions from Augsburg starts the charity action for the benefit of the charitable association on the occasion of his own 10-year anniversary. The project will be presented by two partners at the Leipzig book fair in March. “Education is one of the core topics of our offer. “The Federation makes this literacy great”, so Wolf Nikrandt, business line Joker: “without adequate reading and writing skills education can succeed little. We support this base work like to.” Also Peter Hubertus, Managing Director of the Association of literacy and basic education, would be glad to have found a potent and energetic partner with Joker: “in addition to the financial support of the Joker catalogue offer and” the Internet page Jokers.de an excellent platform to our common concern to literacy of the general public known to make.” Keep it not with the donation of 10,000 euros, Joker customers starting in August can increase this amount. Specially for the action offered by Joker then a high-quality calendar. From each copy sold, the bookseller dissipates 1 euro to the Federation.

The Association cares for over 20 years to the promotion of functional illiterates literacy and basic education e. v. Nationwide, over four million adults can not or only very limited reading and writing. As educational advocacy, the Federation helps stakeholders and institutions involved in literacy work. A special service is the Alfa phone (0251 / 53 33 44): here, people with reading and writing problems receive advice and information on local training opportunities. Joker market leader in this segment is as a specialist supplier of high-quality rest requirements and special editions of the book trade and belongs to the Augsburg Verlagsgruppe Weltbild. It offers Books catalog, stores and on the Internet at.