Professor José Luis Paco Alanoca from Chacasumpa, Peru teaches the 5th grade. He’s taken the time to tell us a little bit more about his students and his experience incorporating Worldreader’s mobile phone solution, BookSmart, into his work with students remotely.

For far too long, children’s books that feature diverse characters were hard to come by. That has changed significantly in the last few years. Publishers like Lantana Publishing are spearheading the way.

We’re honored to be able to positively impact the lives of millions more girls. And we’re determined to do it right. So, as an organization we asked ourselves “how can we use our work to help women and girls read and dramatically accelerate progress towards a more gender-equal world?” This led us to creating four gender equality principles to guide our work and everything we do.