Library for All
From Chalkboard to the Cloud:
Library for All Puts the World in a Child’s Hands
Imagine you’re a 9-year-old girl attending a makeshift school in Haiti, and a well-meaning church group or charity drops off boxes of donated books for you and your classmates to read. This is a generous gesture, but the books are in English. You speak French Creole and are just learning to read and write, using one chalkboard shared by 50 students. The stacks of donated books become stools for the school’s youngest pupils, and you’re stuck with just a few chances per day to take your turn at the chalkboard.The aforementioned scenario may seem far-fetched, but in some parts of the developing world, it’s a reality. To the nearly 2.5 billion people around the globe living on less than $2 a day, access to books — especially those that contain culturally and linguistically appropriate material — is very limited.
A new organization called Library for All is building a digital library for the students in the developing world that will change the way children read, learn and access educational materials — by putting an inexpensive electronic tablet filled with thousands of educational resources right into their hands.
It’s been almost a year since Library for All founder Rebecca McDonald (CEO) and co-founder Tanyella Evans
