iRewild Little Forest Library
Nurturing Literacy, Imagination, and Endless Possibilities in Philippine Classrooms
In a public elementary school in the Philippines, English teacher Neth Vida “Nanette” Monton faces a quiet crisis. Her classrooms are filled with children who long to read but have few books to hold, few words to practice, and deep struggles to understand them.
In Nanette’s three sections of nearly 130 students, the children who need practice most are the ones with the least to read.
Her vision is as simple as it is profound: to create a small classroom library filled with age-appropriate storybooks—so every child can hold a book of their own, every day.
Because a single book can change a child’s life. Because turning a page can turn despair into possibility.
Why iRewild?
At iRewild, we believe literacy and nature-based wonder are foundations of inner transformation.
When children read daily, they grow attention, empathy, and a love that extends outward-toward each other, toward rivers and forests, toward the living Earth itself.
This initiative advances equity, well-being, and ecological curiosity—a future where how we think shapes how we see, and how we see shapes what the world becomes.
One Library. A Thousand Doors.
Imagine being a child who has never owned a book, not even one. No bedtime story with your name in it, no shelf that holds something that belongs to you, no pages that inspire dreams and possibilities. You come to school anyway, hopeful in the way children are hopeful. Your classroom has only a few books, old and torn, their covers curled, their pages thinned and stained from too many hands and too many years. Some are missing pieces of the story. You realize this is what learning looks like here: trying to build a future from what is already breaking. That is the quiet heartbreak of poverty and illiteracy. It does not announce itself, it simply limits what a child can reach for, until even reading feels like something meant for other people.
How You Can Help
One small, well-loved library can turn quiet struggle into daily progress. And daily progress can become a lifetime of doors opening, giving every child a chance to thrive, to see the beauty of the Earth, and to stand in wonder at creation.
Right now, your gift can place real storybooks into the hands of children who’ve never had one of their own. Every dollar becomes a page. Every page becomes a chance. Every chance becomes a child who not only learns to read but learns to see—themselves, the Earth, and life itself.
100% of your donation will go directly toward purchasing books.
The Little Forest Library now holds 450 books and growing, each one nurturing curiosity, imagination, and belonging.
This video offers a glimpse into a dream unfolding—one story, one child, one moment of wonder at a time.
Because stories belong in every child’s hands