This will be the 17th post I’ve done about WorldReader—if you put its name in the search bar up there, you’ll find this post and 16 others…
They sent me an email the other day with this exciting headline:Our Read To Kids Partnership Reaches 200,000!
from WorldReader:
“Two years ago, we asked ourselves a question: could we use mobile phones, local digital books, and local partnerships to get entire communities to read with their kids?
“Today, we’re incredibly proud to announce that over the course of our Read to Kids pilot program, co-created with Pearson, we’ve reached 200,000 families in and around Delhi, India with the life-changing power of reading.”
If you’re pressed for time and not able to take that last link, do, please, watch at least the first short video at the end of this post…
A bit more from WorldReader:
“Thanks to Pearson and to each of [our donors], we’re learning how to support parents to create a culture of reading in the home— a child’s first school. With what we learn, we hope to empower millions more families around the world, from their first days and throughout their lives. Each step gets us closer to realizing our shared vision that everyone can be a reader.”
If you take that last link you’ll find 6 e-books that you can donate for $1.00 each and have them sent directly to students in Ghana and Kenya…
Oh! You can also decide to send multiple copies of each book to multiple students :-)
It looks like it might be only for folks in the U.S.A.; but, they do accept Dollars, Euros, and Pounds…
And, the books (as you’ll see if you take the last link) are stories that take place in the country the students are from…
Worldreader is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Barcelona, London and Accra.
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I’ve written aboutWorldReaderbefore and taking that last link will show you a number of past posts about this critically important organization (plus you’ll see this post, since I tag all my posts and, the Top Tags widget{down a bit on the left} is the Best Way to find stuff on this blog...) [if you’re on a phone, find something like “show desktop site” in the menu…]
One of WorldReader’s main tenets is:
“A generation of children are waiting to become scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers. We help them reach their potential through reading.”
And, since 2010, they’ve reached nearly 5,500,000 children with their programs.
They’ve recently been working hard on a new Initiative, Read to Kids:
“Read to Kids is promoting reading to children amongst parents and caregivers in Delhi, India. It is a two year pilot in Delhi State in India that seeks to promote pre-literacy skills by encouraging parents to read to and with their young children (age 0-6) and by empowering them to do so by giving them access to a free digital library of high quality, locally relevant books and educational materials via their mobile phones.”
“Children are the most vulnerable victims of the Syrian Refugee crisis. And while host countries like Jordan are taking generous measures to improve access to education for these children, many are at risk of being left behind.
“At Worldreader we believe every child should be able to benefit from the power of reading. That’s why we are proud to announce that we are building on the success of our Read to Kids program in India by expanding it to conflict-impacted families in Jordan.”
It’s easy to encourage folks, who are able, to Donate to WorldReader; but, I hope this post and the videos below will encourage you to share this information about how WorldReader is taking the Empowering Act of Reading to the most needy families and children on our planet…
And, in case you wonder if most folks would really read on Mobile devices:
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“Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized [nearly global] shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.”
Staying with the themes of this blog, you might consider this initiative at WorldReader:
Here’s just a bit of explanation of what WorldReader does:
“Literacy is transformative
“It increases earning potential, decreases inequality, improves health outcomes and breaks the cycle of poverty. Books are necessary for the development of literacy skills yet millions of people still have limited access to books.
“We’re changing this.”
WorldReader does its work by supplying folks with e-readers stocked with books appropriate for their age and culture…
TechCrunch, had an article involving WorldReader called, Amazon Launches the Kindle Reading Fund to Expand Digital Reading Around the World.
The article indicates how broadly Amazon‘s initiative reaches…
Here’s an excerpt about their affiliation with WorldReader:
“The company says its new collaboration with Worldreader will see Amazon donating thousands of Kindle e-readers to developing nations. The two have worked together previously, however. For example, Amazon recently supported Worldreader’s LEAP 2.0 library partnership in Kenya, which reaches around 500,000 people by bringing digital reading to 61 libraries in the country.”
It’s been said there are one billion people on our planet with no access to books…
If you want to be inspired to do something about this, watch these two videos…
This one was done in association with Kindle:
This one is from WorldReader, directly:
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