Worldreader Brings E-Books to Uganda, Partners With Humble School
Worldreader, which transforms reading in the developing world, is expanding its partner program with the Humble School. Here's the story until now. This week, @worldreaders' @DanieZacarias and @tina_tam and Humble's @schnelzer and @webtechman will be sending up live reports from the kick-off.
- Worldreader started piloting e-book programs in Ghana and Kenya. Now, with select partners, we're expanding into Uganda and other sub-Saharan countries, and creating a turnkey solution that broadens our "Books for all" mission.
We’re Heading to Uganda! And Going Even Further… | Worldreader BlogA year ago, Worldreader officially launched "Books for All" in Ghana. A few months later, we went to Kenya. Today, we're adding another g...- Worldreader and the Humble United Methodist School started talking in the fall of 2011. In December, we shipped a box to Crossroads United Methodist Church, the Asburn, Va. organization sponsoring the school. The box contained a Worldreader toolkit and basically everything a partner needs to know to start an e-book program in the developing world.Here are few tweets and photos from back then.
@webtechman Daniel Hudson
Cool, our @worldreaders kit arrived! Supporting education for students attending schools in Uganda Africa #ebooks twitpic.com/84f0ed
7 Jan
@webtechman Daniel Hudson
twitpic.com/84f0ed - We have many #eReaders, & a ton of #ebooks for students & teachers in schools in Uganda Africa @worldreaders
8 Jan
@lizzywood elizabeth
@webtechman @worldreader so glad you got it! Cool pic.... Have you read everything IN it :-)
9 Jan v
@webtechman Daniel Hudson @lizzywood @worldreaders We have a community event scheduled for next week to help prepare all these #eBooks for school children in Africa
9 Jan
@lizzywood elizabeth @webtechman
@worldreaders exciting stuff! We can't wait to get started!
9 Jan
- A few weeks ago, Crossroads' volunteers downloaded e-books to the Kindles heading to Uganda.
- In the days leading up to the kick-off, our conversations shifted towards the nuts and bolts of what we do, getting the broader community involved, and prepping for on-the-ground teacher training.
