Reviews and Testimonials

Before this program, when I studied, I would quickly fall asleep. I was non-functional. I would just be fighting to stay awake. Instructors would ask when this started. I would reply that it started when I walked in the room, the first day. Nothing seemed to work.

I heard about the Ollie the Elephant program from a dear friend. It just indicated and I reached out to William and purchased the program.

When I started the program I would go “lights out” as soon as we opened a booklet. After hours of work though, this lessened and lessened to where now the phenomena is very light. I learned so much doing Ollie the Elephant, I now UNDERSTAND what the simple words are doing. They actually make sense. They have a purpose.

I also did the first portion of the Grammar program that William and Megan are writing. It’s amazing. Now when I clear a word I actually look at the part of speech and it makes sense, and frankly I can’t fully clear a word without looking at that. Before I tried to not-is that info in the dictionary as I didn’t understand it.

This program is literally life changing and life saving. It is changing my study life around and I feel certain that I can now win on study. My situation wasn’t simply one of not persevering or having enough discipline, but one of missing/confused data.

I think this program is key and can debug lots of people. Frankly, I think everyone should do it, as I think it will speed up study speed for everyone and increase correct application.

I really can’t say enough positive about this program. I think it’s vital.

It’s a Miracle! It involves a revolutionary approach to learning, focusing on simple words with easy-to-understand illustrations and drills.

The simplicity and effectiveness of this method are truly mind-blowing. There are 164 booklets available, each dedicated to the meaning of a simple, complete with illustrations featuring an elephant.

This is exactly what we have been searching for!

For the past twenty years, I struggled to figure out how to increase my ability to learn faster. I always felt very dumb, and it was only after doing this course that I was able to fix that completely. Now, I am excited to learn and read new material quickly.

While doing step one of the exercises for the word “does” things completely changed in my mind. Suddenly there was an unveiling of the truth of the simplicity of these two words, and I could see there was a very distinct difference.

This is a huge epiphany!

I feel like a screen has been taken off and I can understand better!!!!

All my life I did not know what I didn’t know. From today I will know what I know even if it is only one word (the word at). It is a start! These are the nuts and bolts of the English language. I now have a communication tool with which I can express place and location. I didn’t get it until I got it.

What was life like before? When I was supposed to learn I ran away. I didn’t know there was a structure of learning. My aunt was an academic. She worked for the government and told me, “If you cannot spell and read like the other guys, you will be called stupid.”

I felt guilty and ashamed. In the past, I was running a program to protect myself. That’s how I existed. I ran away!

When my kids came home for homework I went fishing! I would go to the end of the river with the fishing rod because I didn’t know how to communicate with anybody, including my daughters. I had to run away from my kids. I didn’t want to be confronted with the embarrassment that I couldn’t help. I felt guilt and shame all my life because I couldn’t spell, read, or write as the other guys could.

My mental health was very fragile. Nobody presented me with a system of learning and understanding. I never had that awareness that I could communicate through English.

Expression comes in many guises. I was looking for satisfaction. Something I was good at: the kitchen. Here, I had my structure and I knew what I had to do.

I knew something was missing, but I was not aware of what was missing.

Ollie the Elephant is what I was looking for my whole life! In my education, this was hidden from the start. This is what was missing. I didn’t know that I didn’t know.

This program is like it’s made from heaven. This is amazing! The gradient work in it made communication so much easier and with that clarity of communication.

With that level of communication, I can express myself. I can be me.

There have been many success so far, but I had a really cool one tonight!

I was thinking about how my life and activities are aligning rather effortlessly these days with some new endeavors I am working on!

I realized that when one is setting goals or making plans, knowing the simple words means that one’s thoughts and DECISIONS become more precise!

I am finding that my goals are being accomplished very quickly!

Also I know that understanding words and language helps one to organize one’s thoughts and actions, so things “happen” more quickly in my own world and in the world around me.

This was an amazing and transformative program! Getting a firm easy understanding of simple common words has given much greater certainty in life, in study, and in communication.

This is one of the most important programs to effective positive change on this planet. I have gained a much more exact understanding of anything I read, to the point it has opened up my willingness to confront and handle every area of my life.

My ability to read and immediately do has dramatically improved. Thank you Megan and William Tucker.

Thank you for the word drilling. Since starting, I’ve seen my production levels increase.

Eight years ago, it could take me anywhere from thirty minutes to two hours to clear up the meaning of a word. Now, it happened as fast as five minutes or less.

More than that, you’ve helped me handle a source of trauma that has been going on since I was a child. Without being entirely aware of it, I was constantly getting upset by being abandoned by others. It started before the age of ten. My father would leave for three months at a time and I cried myself to sleep so many times. I couldn’t even tell you how many times it happened.

When he passed away in 2010, it was so overwhelming that I would break down emotionally when alone and it’s been a big ruin in my life.
Now that I’m in present time, I’ve realized I can handle it, that I’m okay with being rejected, being left alone; because I’ve noticed that I can still progress and improve regardless of having someone there for me or not.

Thank you for the stability.

I have definitely experienced an improvement in my literacy, and not just in my ability to understand fully what I read. I have also improved my ability to express myself without effort and to feel that I am understood.

Additionally, when I hear the English language, my ability to recognize when I do or don’t understand what I hear is much sharper.

I am much happier with my new ability and feel I can finally honestly help students.

These materials have required much precision, and I have found each part to be extremely accurate and well communicated.

The simple words come with drills that fully get the word to conceptual understanding. I have done bits and pieces of this program on my own and was greatly helped with these definitions and clarity of which they are laid out.

Before this, I was tripping over certain uses of simple words, but I now have a much-increased level of awareness and comprehension of this.

I am very impressed with the simple words course. I feel my certainty returning/increasing with each word.

My study is faster and my duplication, and most importantly, my assimilation, is faster and stronger.

Thank you for making this available, and I am excited to see the impact it has on society.

I have never considered myself a slow or bugged student. I also have taught for over 15 years (Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese).

I knew there was missing understanding with regards to simple words, but I could never bring myself to confront these, because “traditional” dictionaries don’t make it easy.

This program has helped me fill in gaps in my understanding and duplication. It has made me an even faster student now that I know with full certainty what I have misunderstood, without over-thinking or looking all over the text to find it (sometimes even going all the way back to the beginning of the text or earlier tests!)

What a waste of time that was.

Thank you, Megan and William!

It was my first time participating in the English course. I learned the usage of the word “at.” This is very interesting. The materials give me the examples and also shows me how to use “at” in sentences. So I could quickly understand and apply them.

This is something that is not easy to learn in other English courses. It helped me clarify the definition of “at.”

I feel more confident to use “at.” I recommend this course to all my friends who need to learn English. Thank you Paula and Grace, you are the best.

This is helping me a lot to really understand English!
Thank you for all that you are doing for us. I love it!!!

This was englighting. It was easy to do, but more difficult than you might think, because you have to sort out the different definitions of the simple English words that you use all the time. And now I know four of these words really well.

This program is a life saver.

I now understand better what I read. Being from France, I had trouble studying English even though I speak the language well.

It is now easier for me to read, as the words I didn’t totally understand were not the big complicated words, but the small simple words!

I now have a lot of hope that doing the entire program will help me become completely literate in English, and that I will be able to study any subject I want.

Thanks to William and Megan for coming up with this amazing and very doable program.

It is the best literacy program I have encountered so far!!!

A new drug rehabilitations trainee was recently routed onto the Ollie program, so as to learn English fast. One of the Algerians volunteered to help her get through the program at our office. They worked seven hours per day, for eight days.

At first, she spoke zero English. After the first day she said, “I now confront to speak English.”

After eight days on Ollie the Elephant — Learning Made Easy, she now communicates in English.

Thank you Megan and William for this program. I love it. I wish you further the best of success!!!

This group is amazing they put everything they have into helping others.

Good work uniting people of good will to help those in need!

The people working for Charity United never fail to amaze me on how far they will go and what they will do to help a person in need. The donations they receive go to the people who need it. A wonderful organization to support.

This is the type of Non-profit the world really needs today. I have seen the great work Charity United has done in Greece and neighboring countries and it is truly amazing. Very, very well done.

Amazing what you are all doing.

I’ve seen many, many photos of the people being helped and the volunteers in action. This is a cause and a charity that I support.

I have used the Ollie the Elephant booklets with great success.

Yesterday I presented them to a group of people to explain successful applications with a former drug rehab graduate. He struggled so heavily, and I found he was illiterate.

I used the booklets to teach him reading. After that, he was able to study a booklet on personal values, saying, “I can read! I can understand that!”

Then he completed a course in life improvement, and graduated with tremendous success.

Stunning! He turned into a responsible, thriving person in literally two weeks.

There are few charity organizations like this one. Seriously. They work solely to HELP.
The benefit is for others – to help those in need –across the world.
They truly care. The proceeds go towards helping. This is why they have my support now & forever!

This is incredible work you are all doing. How do I get involved?

This is a great Charity, helping children in need the world over!

My name is Vipin, and I live at a slum in South Delhi.

When I started this program, I did not believe that I would be able to learn to speak English. But now I am realizing that I will be able to learn English very well. Before this, I was afraid to speak English. I wasn’t able to speak even basic simple words. I didn’t dare to speak English in front of anyone. I was embarrassed and I thought that people would just laugh at me, so I didn’t even try to speak English.

But after just a few days on the program, I realized that I can learn to speak English, that I will become fluent, and that I can learn to speak like a “gentleman.” Through the methods used on this program, I have found confidence in speaking. And even though I still make mistakes, this no longer bothers me. I know that to learn English, I need to practice and not worry about mistakes.

I have learned how to communicate with others, I am no longer afraid to speak English. I no longer hesitate. I have gained the confidence to speak. I could never even look at others before. Now I can face anyone! I’m no longer embarrassed about making mistakes, I know you can’t learn if you don’t practice.

The conditions in our slum are completely miserable. Despite this, parents send their children to government schools, in hopes of getting them an education. For some reason, however, the children are not able to learn in those schools. Some parents try to get their children a tuition, but the fees charged are way too high for us to afford. At other times, the families are so desperate, that the children need to work instead of go to school.

Now I have started to teach in my slum with the help of Charity United. The changes in the children in my slum have been amazing. The program is so simple, yet powerful. Hope has been restored to the children. You can see it in their eyes. You can see their dreams that had faded have come back to life and they again believe that a future is possible.

The parents are seeing this too. Because of the program, they too have started believing in education. As the word is getting round, the parents are now sending their children to our class. Every day we have 5 to 10 new students.

Our students are doing fantastic. They are learning new words every day, and with the use of flashcards, we are laying in the foundation of their education. We make sure that the students understand what each new word means, and we are building their English vocabulary.

If you don’t believe what I am saying, please feel free to come to our slum. You can personally check the students and you will see that they are really learning! You will see them actually using what they have learned. The children are starting to speak English among themselves. They take pride in using what they have learned.

The only thing that is holding us back now is materials. We are teaching in a field, or under the bridge, if it rains. We need a safe place to teach. We also need access to safe water for the students to drink, and we need the same materials for every student.

With these simple basics in place, I am confident we can have a better future. Our slum, in time, will cease to be a slum, but a place worth living. I know we can do this.

Thank you for all the great work you have done helping refugees in Greece and the Balkans region. Keep it up.

From helping in the camps to keeping families with children out of the camps and sheltered you couldn’t find better than Charity United and their partner Team Humanity.

My name is Poonam. I am a bachelor of Arts, second year, at Delhi University. The area I live in has many slums; there is a lack of facilities, and there are no schools or educational institutions nearby. That is why many children are unable to take classes or get educated.

In our slum, the children want to study, and they have lots of drive, but they don’t study. This is because there are no schools nearby, and no opportunities to study. They do not have any opportunity. But, over the last month, conditions in our area have improved.

Charity United has started to make education available to the slum children. They did so by starting small classes in the open field. The main focus is to make equality a reality: that everyone has a right to education. Together Unique Coaching Center and Charity United have begun to make education available to the slum children. They are providing essential materials such as books, pens, pencils, blackboard, markers, etc.

After education was made available directly in the slums, the children have changed. They love the classes and are interested in learning. There is a new look on their faces. You can see the children walk around and shine.

The students are very excited about the daily classes. They always arrive before the teacher! Because of the methods used to teach, the students are eager to learn. They lose their sense of time! They will stay as long as we give a class. We could teach them all day without losing their interest.

Now the students are very interested, and come to class every day.

I am getting the training from Charity United. I have learned how to give a class, how to keep the students interested, how to deal with the children in a caring manner, and most of all how to get the students through their study difficulties.

The method is completely different from what I am used to, but it is amazingly powerful. The children change in front of your eyes.

Charity United and Unique Coaching have played a vital role in making our dreams possible.

It has become clear to me that their aim is to establish equality for all in the world, not just India. But they are doing this through action, not through words.

Thank you, Charity United and Unique Coaching Center.

Fantastic charity! They are saving lives overseas!

This organization is providing true help to those who most need it and they are doing an excellent job at it. Thank you for all the lives you are saving.

This is awesome!!! What great people are out there helping others in need. Thank you so much!

The work they do is amazing and this organization is 100% worth supporting so they can continue to help those in need.

I want to thank the author, Megan Tucker, for writing these booklets. Because of these Ollie booklets, I am learning many things and a lot of those things help me to increase my knowledge and skill in communicating.

These booklets help me communicate better and finish communications without questions, so I can use my language very easily. That makes me feel very comfortable.

Also, the booklets help me to use words. They give me a lot of vocabulary and this improves my English very quickly. So now I can use as much vocabulary as possible.

Thank you for the Ollie booklets. I enjoy the lessons a lot.

Before we established the classes, the children did not go to school, and the parents were not sure whether the children should go to school or not. They did not understand how important it was to go to school, or why. How can parents know this, when they themselves have never had the opportunity to go to school or get an education?

Thanks to Charity United and Unique Coaching Center, this has changed.

The children are studying well, and are having fun doing so. We now have hope that we can do something with our lives. We know we can grow up to be good people and be something that families can be proud of!

What have the children learned so far?

They have learned so many basic things! We are understanding things better, we are speaking better, and we have gained confidence in studying. I have learned how to educate the other children in the village, I have learned the meanings of many words, and I can now understand what I read. I have more confidence in life, and get along with the village elders better.

The mentality and outlook of the children has completely changed! They have become interested in learning to read and write, and they have hope for the future. The change has been so great, that even the parents have hope for the first time. They have changed their minds about the importance of education. The parents are now supporting education as they have seen the changes in the children since we started this program.

What do the children think now? After starting the classes, the parents have realized that the children are really learning. Both the parents and the children have hope that they can learn to read well.

My own personal experience is as follows:

I have completed my 12th class in government school. I tried to get personal tuition, but it was too expensive, so I had to stop. However, thanks to Charity United and Unique Coaching Center, I was able to continue receiving an education. Thanks to their program, I am beginning to learn English. I am learning how to teach, I am learning how to speak to others, and I have a future.

We still have many challenges. The rains, for example, wash out our “schoolground” in the village. But with the things I am learning, at least we have a chance to change the future.

Thank you Charity United and Unique Coaching Center.

Thanks go to H.T. for introducing this new way of learning English by using different words like “at,” “and,” “to,” “with,” “on,” “in,” etc.

On my side, I had lots of fun learning with the Ollie booklets. Now, I can use different words, especially those small words that I had never used correctly. Now, I can use them effectively. For example, the word “at” is used to show the position or place where someone or something is doing something. Or it can show the number or amount, price, temperature, size, or speed. It’s the same for other small words like “on,” “with,” “and,” and “to.” I can now use them correctly, compared to at first, when I hadn’t studied or learned these small words.

From these booklets, I succeeded in gaining the ability to write different texts correctly. Also, I can speak more smoothly in different conversations, inside and outside the class.

I can understand what someone is saying without any trouble. It is easy to understand what someone means without contradiction because these small words can make someone understand or not understand, depending on the nature of the communication between the two sides.

Lastly, thanks go to the author, Megan Tucker, for discovering this new way of learning English.

Thank you, Megan Tucker, the author of this Ollie booklet! I learned a lot from this program, which helped me to improve my English.

I apply it and will apply it confidently everywhere.

I’m very attracted to learning English with booklets like these, which have cartoons and different pictures. It’s so fun for me, and this gives me the motivation to learn the English language.

I will apply this knowledge in the classroom, at home, and in my daily life. Thank you!

I would like to thank the writer, Megan Tucker, for publishing her Ollie the Elephant booklets.

The book has been very impactful to me as a person and to the students I am teaching in class.

I am now aware of the uses of “at,” “and,” “with,” and so on as they are used in different environments. This has increased my vocabulary when speaking the English language.

I have improved my language drastically, and my English language has improved very much, so I can now speak English frequently. Also, I apply most of my words during classes and in my home.

My students have also improved in the English language by writing and speaking it frequently in our school and in their homes. Parents have confirmed that children are disturbing them with the homework we gave them in the English language.

On behalf of our school, KILIMANJARO GENIUS ACADEMY, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the knowledge gained through the Ollie the Elephant booklets, which enabled us to build a strong foundation of English language literacy.

Firstly, the OLLIE training has enlightened me as the head teacher of this school and as the first person to receive this privilege in Tanzania, and now I’m transferring it to my colleagues. So far, I can stand and express ideas confidently, adhering to the basic foundation received from the booklets. I have realized that it’s just smaller words, which most people ignore, that matter in language, not bigger words.

Secondly, my team members (teachers) are very grateful for the skills they’ve gained, which they pass on to students in our classrooms. Seven teachers have benefited from this program; therefore, they are passing it on to more than 10 students in our school, from Primary 1 to Primary 4. So far, teachers are experiencing a drastic improvement in their English as they are using most of the words learned in their daily communication and classroom instruction.

Lastly, our students are very excited about the program and always very active when Ollie’s time comes. The simple language, examples, and clarifying cartoons and pictures used in these booklets help our students learn quickly and enthusiastically.

When communicating among themselves and in class, students can apply the words they have learned in the different ways shown in the booklets.

We hope that this program will change our school and our country, Tanzania, as far as the English language is concerned.

Thank you to Megan Tucker, the author of the Ollie the Elephant booklets.

This program helped me to open my mind by learning different words. Also, it helped me to communicate very easily and helped me to improve my English.

I will apply this knowledge in the home and in my daily life, especially in the classroom.

Also, I liked to learn with this Ollie booklet because it was fun! I enjoyed learning with these Ollie booklets.

Best guys. I know them for over a decade now. I’m following their charity work for two years or so. What you guys do is amazing!!! �

I have a 4 year old [student] who has never set foot in a school. He is now starting to READ these little sentences of the Ollie books. He really likes the pictures and he can overcome the barriers easily. (which surprises me a lot). With this [student], I do mainly work from only the Ollie books.

… He is still concentrated on the lesson for the full 30 minutes. Very rare for that age.

Devoted people with a mission and purpose! I’ve supported this group before and like their communications.💥💥💥💥💥

I just went through this book fully for the first time and can’t wait to read it with my granddaughter.

She’s a beginning reader, but I’ve seen this technique work beautifully with teen-aged students becoming more proficient in English. These are the words we all think we know, and seldom really do.

This book is beautiful, and the artwork is perfect for the younger beginners. An elementary school teacher I showed it to is equally enthusiastic about the book.

These guys are wonderful! They are right there, on the ground, providing real, tangible help directly to refugees in need. They are making sure that people (many of whom are young children) get food, weather-appropriate clothing, housing, etc., but most importantly of all: human kindness.

Fabulous organization! They work so hard and have the biggest hearts! You know your money is going to be used quickly and effectively.

Thank you for what you are doing to help create a better future for all the children you support. Best wishes for continued success in touching so many lives with hope and love.

Your work is amazing! The future stays in our youth.

Some really fantastic work being done! All the pictures and posts are proof that you are getting a lot done and really saving lives! I’m in awe at the things being accomplished!

Excellent purpose. Thank you for what you’re doing for the community!

Any group that helps children and their parents live a better life is very worthy of all of our support! I totally appreciate what you are doing!!😊

After meeting Megan Tucker Founder and President of Charity United in South Africa and her emotional story in Serbia and around the World in helping the helpless and voiceless children, some whom had nothing to do with the wars but find themselves as victims to pay the high price of war, it is not far fetched, without so much thought as a Global Citizen who has expertise in world peace, I have unconditionally decided to offer part of my time and resources out of my busy schedules to lend the hand indefinitely.

I appeal to all world good people to join us in this crusade in pursuit of happiness.

“The World will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who sit back and do nothing about it”

Dr Charles Sinkala
PCIP President
www.drcharlessinkala.org

I see people in need. Nuff’ said.

Amazing work! Helping and improving lives! Please keep up the good work!