Rebecca McDonald, who runs Library For All, decided to develop the app when she was volunteering in schools of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake devastated the island.
According to her, the schools did not have any proper textbooks in their mother tongue, and students were struggling with low level of literacy.
Currently, the app has supported over 100,000 children with more than 700 books written by each country’s local language, and have a goal to reach 20 million in ten years.
[The full story is available on the podcast above]
Ms Sumin Lee is a regular contributor to SBS Korean Program in charge of ‘Education Anatomy’. Source: SBS KOREAN
