The Girl Power Collection

Mobile reading has been shown to close the gender gap in literacy rates in developing countries where Worldreader operates. As UNESCO’s Mark West and Han Ei Chew wrote, “Mobile reading opens up new pathways to literacy for marginalized groups, particularly women and girls, and others who may not have access to paper books.”

This collection of stories of female empowerment takes the transformative power of mobile reading one step further.

Example Titles: Let Me Tell You, Mimi Mystery, and Fatuma’s New Cloth.

Worldreader thanks Kathy Taylor and Terry Atkinson for their support in expanding this collection in the Worldreader Library.

The STEM Collection

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education provides a path out of poverty and leads to careers in high growth fields like research, medicine, and the computer industry.

Many of the texts in the STEM Collection include illustrations, charts, and research that are costly to license, digitize, convert, edit and format for distribution in the developing world.

Worldreader thanks the Cisco Foundation for their support in expanding this collection in the Worldreader Library.

Learn more about our partnership with the Cisco Foundation.

Photo Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute.

The Tanzania Collection

In 2014, Worldreader organized a conference to bring together different stakeholders in Tanzania’s publishing industry and encourage the digitization of materials for primary schools. These ebooks will be made available on devices that Worldreader helps place inside schools and classrooms throughout Tanzania.

Example Titles: Hadithi Za Esopo, Mama Nimeze na Mimi, and The Man from Tanga.

Worldreader thanks the Kessel Family for providing the funds needed to make this project happen. Their generosity will impact thousands of students who need better access to books.