Everyone can be a reader

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Everyone can be a reader

Literacy is a human right 740 million illiterate People in The world In Africa

200 million children live where printed books are non-existent or prohibitively expensive.

Everyone can be a reader.

Women

Two thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women.

Children

250 million children of primary school age lacking basic reading and writing skills (UNESCO)

A solution in the digital era Program integration

Helping partners institutionalize digital reading

Technology E-readers and mobile apps

Content Free digital books and support for local publishing

Everyone can be a reader.

Reading Champions Training teachers, librarians and parents

Our READERS

Everyone can be a reader.

Our programs

PREREADING

SCHOOL READING

LIBRARY READING

LIFELONG READING

Reading with young children improves school readiness.

E-readers open worlds of learning for students.

E-readers empower librarians to become reading champions.

Access to books on mobile phones enables lifelong reading habits.

Pre-reading Families reading on mobile phones promotes school readiness Read to Kids India Pilot • 400+ Hindi and English storybooks • 17M impressions • 204K families reached

Everyone can be a reader.

School reading Academic performance increases with digital books in schools • 369 schools served • 78,458 readers served

Pencils of Promise partnership • 6x greater word recognition • 2x as much time spent reading

Everyone can be a reader.

LIBRARY reading Digital books reinvigorate a culture of reading in and around libraries • 109 libraries served • 92,400 readers served

Libraries, e-Reading, Activities & Partnerships (LEAP) • All 62 Kenya National Library Service branches • First fully digitally integrated library system in

Africa

Everyone can be a reader.

LIFELONG READING Big data reveals the impact of access to free digital books Reading in the Mobile Era report • Women read 6x as much as men • 1/3 respondents read to children on their

mobile phones

• 62% of respondents are reading more now

that they can read on their mobile phones

Everyone can be a reader.

Our impact

4,780,243

Our community of readers has grown from the size of a small village to 4.8 Million readers in 2016.

2,237,588

905,612

Roughly as many readers as the population of:

Everyone can be a reader.

1,234

335,354

529,592

Ayenyah (Ghana)

Irbid (Jordan)

Aba (Nigeria)

Lilongwe (Malawi)

Lusaka, (Zambia)

Kolkata (India)

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Our collection TITLES I 42,233 Genres I 70 Publishers I 414 Languages I 43

Everyone can be a reader.

Leveraging partners Publishers

Everyone can be a reader.

Education NGOs

corporations

Funders

University presses & academic content

Everyone can be a reader.

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