A new partnership with global nonprofit Room to Read in India is expanding Kodak's Print for Good literacy programme.

Working with Room to Read - which is focussed on literacy and girls' education - the group's literacy programme is being established at a primary school in Rajasthan, helping bring trained teachers and books in the local language.

Print for Good established a volunteer printer network to produce thousands of children's books and school supplies, using Kodak printing products including its Sonora plates.

Kodak print systems sales general manager Richard Rindo says it has been wonderful to see printers signing up "across the globe" to participate in the programme, printing and donating quantities of 2,000 or more pieces of original children's book titles or school notebooks. "Those books and school supplies will be distributed in different geographies through on-the-ground partnerships with literacy organisations, schools and local non-profit groups."

Designer and children's book author Tad Carpenter created an 18-page illustrated book on sustainability, highlighting how children can help conserve water, save energy and reduce pollution.

Last year, the programme placed more than 30,000 books and printed materials into the hands of thousands of children in communities including India, Asia and the Middle East. Kodak employees also worked together to support various literacy initiatives in their local communities around the world.

Kodak teamed with Youth for People and Aroehan in India deliver 5000 notebooks to schoolchildren in Mokhada in rural Maharashtra (pictured). Youth for People started distributing notebooks in 2014 to address a shortage, with the two groups delivering 65,000 notebooks to children in 50 schools in its first year. By 2016, the programme had expanded to 200,000 notebooks for 40,000 children in 300 schools.