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• Week of E-Reading Helps Ugandan School Children Learn Reading Skills, Pronunciation

  285 readers Worldreader, a non-profit organization that promotes e-reading and e-books in the developing world, recently lent e-readers to a school in Uganda for a week. The students, who had not been familiar with e-readers previously, took to them quickly. According to Worldreader’s blog, the experiment was a success, with students improving their reading skills and pronunciation. The

• Week of E-Reading Helps Ugandan School Children Learn Reading Skills, Pronunciation

  217 readers Worldreader, a non-profit organization that promotes e-reading and e-books in the developing world, recently lent e-readers to a school in Uganda for a week. The students, who had not been familiar with e-readers previously, took to them quickly. According to Worldreader’s blog, the experiment was a success, with students improving their reading skills and pronunciation. The

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  An update from Uganda from Worldreader

  574 readersToday is World Book Day and what better way to celebrate it than receive news like this.  Worldreader recently got a note from Bernard Opio, Project Manager at the HUMBLE United Methodist school. We’re thrilled to see that after only a few weeks after our launch there, so much reading is happening!  See for yourself below… ‘I

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  Give Kids In Sub-Saharan Africa Kindles: What Happens Then?

  1051 readers“[It] showed significant improvement in reading skills and in time spent reading…One drawback? Half the e-readers broke.” By Dennis Abrams The non-profit Worldreader gives Kindles to students in sub-Saharan Africa (and is currently working ona reading app for mobile phones). The organization has just published the results of iREAD, its year-long pilot program in Ghana, and its

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  DHL Express Announces Partnership With Worldreader

  2991 readersWe’ve written a few times in the past about Worldreader, the Seattle-based nonprofit that provides Amazon Kindle devices and e-books to schoolchildren in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. And now, according to an item posted earlier this week on a news site known as GhanaWeb, DHL Express and Worldreader have announced a mutually-benficial partnership. “Through the partnership,” according

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  Worldreader launches cell phone e-book app for African students

  2189 readersPaidContent has a brief piece on world literacy program Worldreader, which has distributed over 75,000 e-books and e-readers to students in sub-Saharan Africa. (We’ve mentioned them a few times ourselves.) Worldreader is launching an application for Java-enabled feature phones that will allow them to read e-books and access web sites such as Facebook over ordinary

• Additional Publishers, Caine Prize Partners with Worldreader

  1182 readersBy Publishing Perspectives Worldreader, the European and US non-profit organization, has partnered with Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishers (Canada), Egmont UK, Rosetta Books, Hardie Grant Egmont (Australia), and Ripley Publishing to help expand upon their mission of making digital books available free of charge to children in the developing world.  (As of June 2012, Worldreader has

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  Worldreader starts camapign to send 1 million ebooks to Africa

  1056 readersFrom the press release: Worldreader (worldreader.org), the non-profit transforming reading in developing countries by distributing digital books to children with limited access to literature, kicked off a campaign today with support from renowned soccer team FC Barcelona (Barça), asking people to help send 1 million e-books to students in sub-Saharan Africa. Using new technology and

• Share a Video on Facebook and Get Worldreader $1 – Help Them to Get Ereaders to Kids

  700 readersE-Ink, the makers of the most used ereader screens have just launched a campaign to help Worldreader in their work of getting ereaders to kids in poor rural African schools. It is simple enough, all you have to do is go to their Facebook page (link below), share the video and e-Ink will then give $1

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  Kindles and Ebook Program in Ghana is Popular, but the Devices Break Too Often

  1392 readersWorldreader is an initiative that has the purpose of bringing ebooks to people in developing countries and it ran a trial between October 2010 to July 2011 in Ghana. The purpose was to bring e-reader technology to the country and see how well students cope with it and use it to study. The pilot project was