Bridge Notes

Joyce Kim has just challenged us all to raise $5000 to support the Talking Book Project.  If we can do this by December 5th — just 14 days from now — she’ll kick in another $500 herself!  All that’s needed is less than $17 for each of the 308 people signed up on our Facebook Cause, “Knowledge for All”.

In total, we are down to $15,000 needed by the end of December to fund the Talking Book pilot. Literacy Bridge has completed engineering work and is ready to produce 100 devices for pilot testing in West Africa this January. We have university students from MIT and Ghana’s University of Development Studies ready to conduct the pilot. We have government and nonprofit health and education officials preparing recorded content for the pilot. We have representatives from the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations waiting for the results of our pilot. The last thing we need is the money to produce the devices.

Please join the others from this cause (see a partial list below) who have already made small and large tax-deductible donations to show they are serious about bringing literacy and access to information to the entire world.  To donate, please go to http://literacybridge.org/donate and join the 100+ donors, many of whom are are listed at http://literacybridge.org/about/donors.html.