UNESCO

Grace is a student at the Asuboi Primary School in
Ghana, where children have been using e-readers
for two years thanks to a partnership between
Worldreader and Nokia, and with the support of
UNESCO. Today, there are 250 million children of
primary school age in the world who lack basic
reading and writing skills, and still 50 per cent
of schools in Africa have few or no books at all.
Yet Grace knows now that she can have access to
reading even where no books are available thanks
to information and communications technology
(ICT). So does her mother Ernseha, with whom she
often enjoys reading on the family mobile phone.
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