Reading to a child from the time that they are born can have the greatest impact on their life. As a digital reading organization, we’re always on a quest to discover smarter and higher-impact ways to get more people reading. Until recently, mobile phones really had no significant track record as reading tools for children … Continue Reading →

3rd grade student Lamees shares a phone with her friend Nour while trying out the Worldreader Kids app Walk into the right classroom at Um Huthaifa School and ask one of the 3rd graders to show you her “reading card” and she will invariably pull out a large piece of folded, colorful cardboard with lists … Continue Reading →

Celebrating 200,000 Households Two years ago, we set out to try something unprecedented: using mobile phones to get entire communities to read with their kids. Along with our co-founder, Pearson (as part of Project Literacy), we set the ambitious goal of reaching 200,000 families in and around Delhi, India over the course of the pilot … Continue Reading →

What happens when armed conflict robs families of access to books? What happens when stories disappear, when access to narrators and teachers cease to exist or when libraries are destroyed? What happens when armed conflict robs families of access to books? We could ask the 121 million children and adolescents worldwide who are currently out … Continue Reading →