On International Literacy Day, we’ve got some good news to share with all of you: we’re closer than you think to stomping out illiteracy thanks to mobile technology. Wrap your mind around this: 6 billion people have access to a mobile device. In a survey we conducted, we found that people who start reading … Continue Reading →

Worldreader’s large-scale projects always involve considerable monitoring and evaluation to examine how e-readers and access to digital books help children read more and read better. Our latest work in Ghana takes this effort even further. In 2010 when we launched our first pilot program, iREAD, we focused on providing access to required curriculum textbooks, supplementary … Continue Reading →

By Periša Ražnatović There’s only one thing Worldreader loves as much as reading – and that’s learning about how we can get more people reading. While our e-reader program focuses on delivering e-books to students and schools, we knew there were other platforms — like low-end, feature phones — people in the developing world have … Continue Reading →

By Samuel Alomenu Creating an environment that fosters the reading habit and gives children an opportunity to explore the endless world of learning are prerequisites to developing a reading culture. That’s why we continued our summer reading program again this year. Since the students were going to have about 45 days off from school, we … Continue Reading →

By Jessica Buster One of the first questions anyone encountering Worldreader’s projects for the first time asks is, “How do you recharge an e-reader in Africa?” There are a lot of different answers to this question, some of which have been mentioned on the blog before. The thing that makes these answers different is the … Continue Reading →

It’s that time of year: Back to School. Like all parents, I love preparing my daughters backpacks with all the tools they’ll need to learn about the world. Yet, often I can’t help but think about the children I’ve met in Africa and how going back to school for them usually means walking into a classroom … Continue Reading →

  Great news! We got word today that we won the “All Children Reading: Grand Challenge for Development” Award. The grant, which will be for up to $300,000, allows us to build on our previous work in Ghana; provide additional books and educational materials in local Ghanaian language and English; expand after-school reading activities, and, of … Continue Reading →

Written by the Worldreader Research & Operations Team In his book The Fifth Discipline, MIT Professor Peter Senge defines a learning organization as a place “where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where … Continue Reading →

By Dani Zacarias The sun was shining and our publishing partners were filing in the door. Every single publisher we work with in Ghana was represented, most of them by more than one person. I was about to lead the inaugural Worldreader Digital Publishing Seminar, and I couldn’t have been more excited.   All this … Continue Reading →

Today is World Book Day, and what better way to celebrate it than to receive news like this? Worldreader recently got a note from Bernard Opio, project manager at the HUMBLE United Methodist school. We’re thrilled to see that only a few weeks after our launch there so much reading is happening! “I was very happy on … Continue Reading →