On September 8, 2022, Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands opened the Language Festival at the Centrum Library in Ridderkerk on the International Day of Literacy. The Week of Reading and Writing takes place from 8 to 14 September. Princess Laurentien founded the Reading and Writing Foundation on 27 May 2004 to connect as many parties as possible that were already active, or should be, in the field of low literacy.