Certain books serve as bookmarks to important life milestones: the ones your parents read to you in the crib as you drifted off to sleep (Goodnight, Moon and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie), the first book you read on your own (Green Eggs and Ham), the novels that made you feel a little less alone when you "came of age" (Holes, The Outsiders and The Catcher in the Rye).
Reading is essential not only to spreading knowledge, but also to guiding child development. However, 260 million children across the globe are growing up without access to books.
Library For All wants to fix this problem. Supported by a team of 14 staff members and volunteers, CEO Rebecca McDonald and COO Tanyella Evans plan to create a cloud-based library of e-books for schoolchildren in developing countries, where paperbacks and hardcovers are simply unfeasible to obtain. Six major U.S. publishing companies have already agreed to work with Library For All to build a collection of thousands of books for students to download on mobile phones, e-readers or low-cost tablets that their schools have purchased.
In order to bring their project to life, Library For All has launched a Kickstarter campaign with a fundraising goal of $100,000 by July 13.
Watch the video above to learn more about Library For All and find out how you can help.