Challenge
In many parts of the world, there is a big gap between the language spoken at home and the medium of instruction at school. Infact, there are over 617 million children who are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading. The 2016 GEM report states that ‘in multi-ethnic societies, imposing a dominant language through a school system has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.’
Description
Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver is an innovative publishing model that provides free and open access to multilingual storybooks for children to build and nurture a reading habit, and also provides collaborative tools that allow users to create, translate and repurpose the content to their local needs.
Outcomes
StoryWeaver has grown from 800 books in 24 languages to 12,600 books in 152 languages. It has impacted 1.5 million lives globally and raised $2,384,500 USD in funds.
