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Worldreader Tablets Take Over Classrooms

Worldreader is on a mission to bring digital books to every child and family, starting with schools on the African continent including Uganda, Malawi, and Tanzania.  With the goal to improve worldwide literacy, the organization has built digital platforms and mobile connectivity in the Africa, providing e-readers to schools in need.  Students now have access to entire libraries, with some books translated into local languages.

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A classroom at the HUMBLE School in Uganda using e-readers.

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Students in the Worldreader programs usually take their e-readers home and share it with other family members.

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Student Launch at Upendo School.

  • Zimbabwe:   Worldreader Donates Tablets

    The Herald, 23 May 2013

    European-based non-profit-making organisation Worldreader recently donated 50 tablets to King George School VI for the Physically Challenged in Bulawayo. The tablets are of the… Read more »

Jon McCormack / The Kilgoris Project / Worldreader

Primary school student reading an ebook alongside its print version.

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