Richard Atuti is the Director of the Kenya National Library Service. He's played a vital role in the success of the LEAP 2.0 project which brought digital reading to all 61 public libraries in Kenya.

When Kelvin’s small village received 25 e-readers from Worldreader loaded with 5,000 e-books, Kelvin took on a new role.

The partnership between Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) is boosting access to reading resources for young learners across Kenya.

LEAP (Libraries, E-Reading, Activities & Partnerships) brought Worldreader’s digital reading platform to 61 Kenya National Library Service (knls) public libraries, contributing to Kenya’s Vision 2030, achieving national scale and laying a foundational model for replication globally.

This report by Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service shows the success of LEAP 2.0 and how the national scale-up of project LEAP provided librarians across Kenya the opportunity to put their unique spin on a digital reading project.

In Kenyan libraries, Worldreader and knls’s LEAP program highlighted five key insights for moving from pilot to country-level scale and that can contribute to strengthening an effective ecosystem of technology-enriched educational programs.

Libraries in Kenya using Worldreader e-readers with free ebooks saw monthly visits triple, revitalizing those libraries as hubs for information and knowledge.

As many as 10,000 people have been impacted by Project LEAP (Libraries, E-Reading, Activities and Partnership). Free ebooks on e-readers in libraries are increasing reading in Africa.

The baseline report of Project LEAP (Libraries, e-Reading, Activities and Partnership), seeking to improve reading in Africa, was led by Worldreader in eight libraries in Kenya, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.