Sometimes the biggest impact can come in unexpected ways.   In October, I had the chance to travel to India with Kate James, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Pearson, to see our Read to Kids program in action. Pearson and Project Literacy are co-supporters of the Read to Kids program and have been our partners … Continue Reading →

 By Rebecca Chandler Leege, Chief Impact Officer, Worldreader Just last week we received a note from a man named Michael Kazungu in Kenya. Michael is the Head Librarian at knls Kwale Library. As part of LEAP 2.0 the library received a batch of e-readers in February 2017 and since then Michael has been incredibly … Continue Reading →

From 20 to 27,210 Kindles in Africa When a Worldreader team visited OrphanAid Africa in Ghana with a box of 20 Kindles in 2010, we didn’t expect to spark a reading revolution or to forge a critical partnership with Amazon. We started off with a simple idea to test if e-readers filled with books could be … Continue Reading →

We’ve joined forces with Opera Software to understand how women in Africa use mobile internet. Two studies undertaken by Opera Software and Worldreader have found that women in Africa use mobile internet to empower and entertain themselves. Opera Software ran a survey of 1,500 women and men aged 14 to 44 in Nigeria, Kenya, and … Continue Reading →