Chang’ombe Primary School, the public primary school in a remote village of Rabai in the sub-county of Kilifi County, was the unlikely recipient of eReaders with a total of five thousand books thanks to Worldreader.
The Anasoma Research has presented initial findings of the first sprint of the Anasoma Research aimed at identifying barriers of and drivers to female mobile readership in Kenya.
The partnership between Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) is boosting access to reading resources for young learners across Kenya.
LEAP (Libraries, E-Reading, Activities & Partnerships) brought Worldreader’s digital reading platform to 61 Kenya National Library Service (knls) public libraries, contributing to Kenya’s Vision 2030, achieving national scale and laying a foundational model for replication globally.
This report by Worldreader and the Kenya National Library Service shows the success of LEAP 2.0 and how the national scale-up of project LEAP provided librarians across Kenya the opportunity to put their unique spin on a digital reading project.
In Kenyan libraries, Worldreader and knls’s LEAP program highlighted five key insights for moving from pilot to country-level scale and that can contribute to strengthening an effective ecosystem of technology-enriched educational programs.
This report describes the research process, methodology and critical findings that enables Worldreader, and others, to positively influence gender norms and stereotypes by exposing users to empowering content on applications.
Opera and digital reading non-profit Worldreader have joined forces to understand how women in Africa use mobile internet. Two studies undertaken by the organizations have found that women in Africa use mobile internet to empower and entertain themselves.
Inmates at the Kakamega GK prison are among groups targeted to benefit from the E-learning programs funded by WorldReader. Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) who is implementing the program said the initiative seeks to offer digital books that are within the set curriculum.