The Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings has published the "The Childhood Cost Calculator: A simple tool for costing interventions for children and youth". Worldreader staff, Wendy Smith and Leslie Tettey, are co-authors.

One book can change a life forever. For Gianfranco from Ayacucho in Peru, a new story helped him write his own. School was hard for Gianfranco. He was getting in trouble more often than his peers, and he was told that he was causing issues for his teachers and his mother. However, when the sixth-grade … Continue Reading →

Worldreader, World Vision, and GRADE partnered to review the CreceLee digital reading project as it pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic towards home-based reading. Young students and their families received education at home exclusively through mobile technology and Worldreader’s BookSmart reading application.

En Perú, CreceLee, un programa de lectura digital, promovió el acceso a la lectura y el aprendizaje durante el cierre de escuelas por el COVID-19 en 2020.

Lima.- En el marco del convenio de cooperación con el Ministerio de Educación para lograr que ningún escolar abandone sus estudios y los continúe con las condiciones mínimas que merecen, la ONG World Vision Perú entregará más de 100 tablets con Internet a alumnos de escuelas rurales y urbanas de primaria y secundaria de Chancay y Huaral.

Worldreader’s new partnership with the Ministry of Education in Peru is positioning Worldreader to support readers at scale with digital reading programs across the country.

In partnership with IBBY Mexico, Worldreader is expanding to Latin America starting with a project called avanzaLee, that is addressed to youth in Mexico.