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