Friends of Kpelezo from the U.S. partnered with The Nneka Youth Foundation, a local Ghana NGO whose mission is to inspire youth to remain in school so that they are able to reach their full potentials.
Training of nneka volunteers to guide pupils
Pupils guided to use e-readers
At e-readers donation ceremony
- Pupil being guided to read with e-reader
Beneficiaries of e-readers
Cecilia Fiaka, the Founder and Director of Nneka Youth Foundation, is a firm believer that every child must learn to read proficiently in order to progress successfully through school. She embarked on a large-scale effort to collect books for the area schools and to formalize the Nneka Afterschool Reading Club program.
The problem she encountered was that there were never enough books for the growing number of students in the reading clubs. With Nneka having laid the foundation for a wholesale literacy effort, this was the ideal environment to introduce the Worldreader e-reader program.
Friends of Kpelezo received a donation of $6,500 from one of its very generous donors to purchase one of Worldreader’s Blueboxes which contained 50 e-readers each with 100 carefully selected books.
Parents signing consent forms