Wayétu Moore

Miatta reads

Once a refugee, she’s opened one of Liberia’s few bookstores, where children can read about themselves

Books

It’s hard to learn to read when your country has been torn apart by war and disease. It’s even harder when children’s books come from far away. But Wayétu Moore, whose family fled Liberia’s civil war when she was five, is setting out to change the odds for kids in Liberia and other countries with low literacy.