Around the world, nearly two-thirds of illiterate people are women— a proportion that has remained unchanged for two decades. Despite progress made towards gender equality, women and girls continue to be held back because of their gender.
The project
Anasoma aims to redefine gender stereotypes through literature and boost women’s and girls’ empowerment and assertiveness by giving them access to a digital library of empowering books.
Project Design
Research
We’re identifying the barriers and drivers to female mobile readership through a human-centered design approach.
New content
We’re acquiring new content aimed at challenging social norms and redefining the traditional stereotypes.
Women’s empowerment collection
As part of Anasoma, we launched our first women’s empowerment collection of 60 titles & sponsored the creation of 5 new titles for our library.
The project at a glance
Location
Kenya
Key Partners
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Empowering books added
60
Original books created
5
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INCREASING FEMALE READERSHIP IN KENYA
The Anasoma midterm report shows the initial findings of the Anasoma project, aimed at identifying barriers of and drivers to female mobile readership in Kenya.
