Dear Jon,
Happy International Literacy Day!
This is an important day every year at Worldreader when we reflect on our contributions towards the fight for global literacy: 60 million hours spent reading via Worldreader programs; 4 million digital books distributed to schools and libraries in Africa; students making quantum leaps in reading comprehension and doubling the amount they read.
It’s also a day we reflect on how far we have to go. In advance of this year’s Literacy day—themed Literacy in the Digital World—UNESCO reported that there are still 750 million illiterate people around the world. This figure that has hardly budged in decades. That’s why I’ve issued a call for all hands on deck across sectors to harness the power of digital reading to make a breakthrough in this fight.
Read it here.
We’re proud this International Literacy Day to be able to announce three new partnerships that exemplify this collaborative approach:
- We’re teaming up with PepsiCo employees across Sub-Saharan Africa to create a new Read for Life Collection in our Open Library app that will empower more young women become readers.
- We’re partnering with Xerox, the 92nd Street Y and luminaries like Roxanne Gay, Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jonathan Safran Foer on an ambitious collaborative writing campaign called Set the Page Free.
- We’re working with Freetel, Google, MTN and TD Africa to pre-load our Android app with thousands of free African and international books onto phones sold in Nigeria.
You can read more about these partnerships and the all hands on deck approach I’m calling for
in my post.
And we’d love you to join us.
And we’d love you to join us.
Thank you for your support!
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