This summer The Literate Earth Project (LEP) and Pangea Educational Development will opened a library in one of the largest refugee camps in Africa. Learn how the partnership developed in a conversation with Jeff Fonda, Founder and CEO of LEP, and Drew Edwards, Co-Founder and CEO for Pangea Educational Development.
Read MoreThis summer, the Literate Earth Project partnered with Skidmore College to send Katy Ballo, winner of a 2018 Minerva Scholarship, to Uganda. We asked Katy to tell us about her experience, and the lessons she learned while working with the Literate Earth Project in Uganda.
Read MoreThe Literate Earth Project has partnered with Skidmore College to send Katy Ballo, winner of a 2018 Minerva Scholarship, to Uganda. During her time in Uganda, Katy will be visiting Literate Earth Project libraries and learning about the daily operations of the organization, and assisting librarians in developing programming.
Read MoreWe interviewed Project Manager Sauda Nakasinde to get her thoughts on the literacy assessments and the progress she’s seen on her quarterly library visits.
Read MoreWhat we learned from our first three rounds of literacy assessments.
Read MoreMeet Sauda Nakasinde, Senior Project Manager for the Literate Earth Project. Sauda has been with LEP since October of 2014, coordinating operations within Uganda and deepening our relationships with local stakeholders.
Read MoreOn October 16 2016, athletes, avid readers, and everyone in between came out to support the Literate Earth Project by running or walking in the Let’s Get Literate 5k - an unexpected intersection between an age-old sport and a worthy cause.
Read MoreLiteracy is at the root of social justice. By empowering students with access to books, they are uplifting their own voices.
Read MoreWhen I first started working with the Literate Earth Project, we had nothing but some books and a dream. Four years later, we have nine fully-functioning school libraries with many more to come.
Read MoreThe summer before I graduated from college, I spent two months in Uganda as part of Soccer Without Borders. While the entire purpose of the trip was to help those less fortunate, I was taken aback by the extent of the poverty in Uganda. Despite it being one of the most developed nations in Africa, many Ugandans live a life that few of us can even imagine - having to walk miles for clean drinking water, living in cramped spaces, and barely affording school fees to improve their own children’s future. Even if schools were fortunate enough to have a library, the books were kept under lock and key.
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