Sindh is home to the world's earliest university and a proud owner of the planet's oldest language. With a rich culture of arts and literature flowing through its veins in days gone by, it is alarming to see how the province's four million children are becoming part of the growing uneducated population of the country today. Nearly 32 percent of primary school-goers are unable to read a single word of grade-level text in Sindhi or Urdu, while approximately 67 percent cannot read a story in either language. We saw it as a deepening crisis at Sindh Reading Program (SRP), posing a serious threat to Sindh governments.