Our Impact
Stories That Travel Far
Every book we donate carries more than words—it carries hope, curiosity, cultural pride, and the opportunity to see the world through new eyes.
Our Reach
Where our books travel
Together with teachers, schools, NGOs, community leaders, and our Dragonfly Ambassadors, we bring bilingual books and educational resources to remote communities around the globe. Click here to explore the communities and organizations our books have reached.
From Indigenous villages and island schools to rural classrooms and conservation projects, our mission is helping children discover a bigger world—one story at a time.
From the Field
Voices from our partners.
“Thanks to our alliance with Little Explorer, Big World™, we were able to deliver hundreds of books to the Public and School Libraries of Cali in neighborhoods with the most vulnerable population, and in the rural libraries of Valle del Cauca, in places recognized worldwide for bird watching in Colombia.”
Maria Elisa Holguin
Executive Director, Bibliotec Foundation
“Little Explorer, Big World™ has set a standard in pedagogy and didactics for teaching bird watching to children in Tolima. It has had a great impact since the 2019 Tolima Bird Festival as a strategy for children to learn in a fun way and fall in love with birds and their care. Great support received by Kike Calvo for this part of Colombia.”
Matilde Antia Ruiz
Specialized Professional, Subdirectorate of Natural Resources Administration
“Little Explorer, Big World™ has helped us strengthen our environmental conservation work in the rural areas of the municipality of Jamundí in Valle del Cauca, facilitating educational processes with children for the conservation of birds in their territories.”
Maria del Rosario Cortes Mejía
Foundation Reserva Natural Bonanza
“We feel very proud to make children happy, providing teachers with a tool for the growth of our children and adolescents. This would not be possible without Kike Calvo, who donated us books for the Municipality of Planadas.”
Eduar Aviles
Berlín Natural Reserve, Planadas, Colombia — Association of Young People Committed to the Environment
“I just opened the box of books yesterday! They are wonderful; thank you so very much! I have placed a few on our inpatient library shelf and I’m sure they will be a hit!”
Nicole Perez, MA, CCLS
Coordinator of Child Life Services, NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
Communities We Reach
Where Our Books Make an Impact
Our journey began in 2015 with the publication of Kikeo & the Whale, our first book . Since 2019, Little Explorer, Big World™ has worked with schools, libraries, nonprofit organizations, Indigenous communities, conservation initiatives, and local partners to place bilingual and multilingual books in the hands of children and families around the world.
Many of these relationships continue year after year, reflecting our belief that meaningful impact grows through long-term partnerships, local collaboration, and access to stories in the languages of the heart.
Below are the communities, institutions, and organizations that have received or helped distribute our educational materials.
From Indigenous villages and island schools to rural classrooms and conservation projects, our mission is helping children discover a bigger world—one story at a time.
Our reach continues to grow. This list is currently being updated.
Bilingual Book Distribution Record
Bolivia
Cochabamba
- Inti-Nest to Benefit / ACH-CAICC — Cochabamba — 2024
Colombia
Amazonas & Amazon–Orinoco Region
- Caño Matavén Communities, Orinoco River — Supported through Fundación Etnollano — 2019
- Caño Sama Communities, Orinoco River — Supported through Fundación Etnollano — 2019
- Communities along the Atacuari, Loretoyacu and Amazonas Rivers — 2020
- 7 de Agosto
- Boyahuazu
- Naranjales
- Nuevo Paraíso
- October 12 / 12 de Octubre
- Puerto Rico
- San Francisco
- San Juan de Atacuari
- San Juan de Socó
- San Martín de Amacayacu
- Santa Teresita
- Santarém
- Tarapoto
- Tipisca
- Villa Andra
- Communities along tributaries of the Orinoco River — Supported through Fundación Etnollano — 2022
- Fundación Etnollano — Amazonia & Orinoquía — 2019, 2022, 2023
- Fundación Omacha — Amazonas — 2022
- Mirití-Paraná River Communities — 2021
- Bellavista
- Jariyé
- Mamurá
- Oiyaca
- Puerto Castaño
- Puerto Guayabo
- Puerto Lago
- Puerto Libre
- Puerto Nuevo
- Quebrada Negra
- Villanueva
- Wakaya
- Piaroa Indigenous Community of Barrancotigre — Caño Bocón, Inírida River; supported through Fundación Etnollano — 2019
Antioquia
- Corporación Ambiental Viboral Biodiverso — Antioquia — 2023
- Institución Educativa La Mesa — Bello — 2023
- Institución Educativa Rafael J. Mejía — Sabaneta — 2023, 2024
- Sembrado de Paz y Esperanza — Comuna 13, Medellín — 2021
- Communities of Comuna 13 — Medellín; supported through Calasanz — 2022
Atlántico
- Centro Psicopedagógico Integral Adelita de Char — Barranquilla — 2023
- Fundación Barriofoto — Puerto Colombia — 2022
- Fundación Remanso de Vida y Esperanza – FUNDARVE — Soledad — 2023, 2024
- I.E.D. Santa María — 2023
Bogotá, D.C.
- Colectivo Iguana Palabra — 2023
- Colegio Atabanzha – Institución Educativa Distrital — 2022
- Eclecticabogota y Proyecto8infinito — Soacha listed in source — 2023
- Fundación Bibliotec — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Colombia Chiquita — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Cultivando Bienestar — 2022, 2023
- Fundación Humedal Torca Guaymaral — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Nuestro Hogar — Barrio La Flora; organization supporting approximately 350 children from low-income backgrounds — 2020
- Fundación Progresar – Centro de Educación Especial — Supporting children and young people with cognitive disabilities — 2022
- Fundación Recojamos Semillitas — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Sanar — Support for children with cancer — 2022
- FUNPES – Fundación Proyectos Educativos Sociales — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa Francisco Javier — 2024
- Lecturas y Talleres — Kennedy — 2022
- Mesa Local de Mujeres Jóvenes de Ciudad Bolívar / Mesa Local Mujeres Ciudad Bolívar — 2023, 2024
- Sector “La Bota,” Barrio Villa Cindy — Suba — 2022
Bolívar
- Dones de Misericordia Orphanage — Tierra Bomba; supported through Pillar of Dreams — 2019
- Institución Educativa de Juan Arias — 2023
- Institución Educativa de la Boquilla — Cartagena/Turbaco area — 2022, 2023
Boyacá
- Biblioteca Escolar Foraquira — Jenesano; supported through Lecturas Compartidas — 2022
- Colegio Sugamuxi — Sogamoso — 2023
- Fundación Mis Pitufitos — Sogamoso — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa Gimnasio Gran Colombiano — Tunja — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa San Pedro Claver — Chitaraque — 2023
- Mundo Hermanos — Úmbita — 2023, 2024
Caldas
- Escuela Rural Monseñor Alfonso de los Ríos — Supported in association with Fundación Cristal de Sábila Neurodiverso — 2023
- Fundación Cristal de Sábila Neurodiverso — 2023
Cauca
- Fundación Amalaka — Totoró — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa Técnico Mariscal Sucre — San Antonio Miranda, listed under La Guajira in the 2023 source — 2023
- Proyecto Casa de Acogida “La Esperanza” – Secretaría de la Mujer del Cauca — 2023
- Resguardo Indígena de Pitayó — Silvia — 2023, 2024
Cesar
- Biblioteca Kankuaka — Valledupar — 2023
- Cabildo Atánquez — Valledupar — 2023
- Cabildo Chesquemena — Candelaria — 2023
- Fundación para el Desarrollo Social Sueños de Vida — Valledupar — 2023
- Niños del Corregimiento Los Corazones — 2023
Chocó
- Vinilo Estilo Urbano — 2023
Cundinamarca
- Fundación Humedal Torca Guaymaral — 2023
- Institución Educativa Departamental / Distrital Las Villas — Cogua — 2023, 2024
- Proyecto Infinito — Soacha — 2024
- Puerta Ancestral Juaica — Tenjo — 2023, 2024
Huila
- Institución Educativa Francisco Antonio Rada — Morales — 2023
- Institución Educativa Juan XXIII — Algeciras — 2023, 2024
La Guajira
- Arhuaca Community, Katansama, Perico Aguado — Supported through Taller de Klo — 2022
- Arimaka Community — Supported through Taller de Klo — 2022
- Docente Brian Otalora — Uribia — 2023
- Institución Educativa #5 San José de Maicao / Institución Educativa San José — Maicao — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa San Antonio — Maicao — 2023
- Institución Educativa San Antonio — Manaure — 2023, 2024
- Institución Etnoeducativa Integral Rural Media Luna Media Jawou / Institución Integral Rural Media Luna Jawou — Uribia — 2023, 2024
- Institución Etnoeducativa Rural Isachimana — Manaure — 2024
- Institución Educativa Técnica Internado Indígena San Antonio — 2023
- Kogui Community, Tungeka, Río Ancho — Supported through Taller de Klo — 2022
- Puya, Comunidad Wayuu — Uribia — 2021, 2022
- Waliperree Etnobirding Handicraft — Guamal — 2024
Magdalena
- Corporación Puro Cuento — Palermo — 2023, 2024
- IETD Gilma Royero Solano — 2023
- Taller de Klo — Santa Marta — 2023
Meta
- Cuadrilleritos del Meta — 2024
- Fundación Integral Para el Desarrollo Fundar JSG — Villavicencio — 2023
- Institución Educativa Nuestra Señora de La Macarena — La Macarena — 2023, 2024
- Robinzon Torres – Guía Rural — La Macarena — 2023
Nariño
- Institución Educativa Municipal Morasurco — 2023
- Mentor Kids — Pasto — 2023, 2024
Norte de Santander
- Centro Educativo Rural Chíchira – Sede Negavita — Pamplona — 2023
- Gladys María Rangel Cañizales — Ábrego — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa Carlos Pérez Escalante – Sede Marco Fidel Suárez — 2023
- Institución Educativa San Antonio — Villa del Rosario — 2023, 2024
- Instituto Técnico Patios Centro No. 1 — Los Patios — 2024
- Communities of Santo Domingo, San Rafael & La Cabrera — Cúcuta; supported through Calasanz — 2022
Putumayo
- Armada de Colombia — Puerto Leguízamo — 2024
Quindío
- Birding and Herping — Armenia — 2023, 2024
- Institución Educativa José María Córdoba — Quindío — 2023
Risaralda
- Institución Educativa Bernardo López Pérez — Dosquebradas — 2023
- Institución Educativa Combia – Sede San Marino — 2023
- Institución Educativa Enrique Millán Rubio – Sede Alto del Oso — 2023
- Communities of Poblado 1, Rocío Bajo, Rocío Medio and Samaria — Pereira; supported through Calasanz — 2022
Santander
- Colegio Juan Pablo II — Rionegro — 2023
- Fundación Para el Bienestar – FUNDESTAR — Bucaramanga — 2023
- Shangoo Hecho a Mano – Taller Creativo y de Manualidades — 2023
Sucre
- Biblioteca Escolar Buenaventura — Pajonal, San Onofre — 2022
- Biblioteca Escolar Si Te Gusta — Pajonal, San Onofre — 2022
- Quinto Festival Infantil de Literatura — Rincón del Mar; supported through Lecturas Compartidas — 2022
Tolima
- AJOCEMAVHF / Asociación de Jóvenes Comprometidos con el Medioambiente — Planadas — 2022, 2024
- Asociación Mundos Hermanos — Chaparral — 2023
- Asociación San Vicente de Paul — Ibagué — 2023, 2024
- Astuhermosas — Chaparral / Cañón de las Hermosas — 2022, 2023
- Cañón de las Hermosas Communities — Chaparral — 2022
- Combeima Canyon Communities — Supported through Cortolima — 2019
- Communities along the Girardot–Bogotá Highway — Supported through Via40Express and Cortolima — 2019
- Corporación Vida Andina — Cajamarca/Ibagué — 2023, 2024
- Edwar Avilés Olaya – Guía Rural — Planadas — 2023
- Grupo Cristata, Entreaguas Reserva Natural — Coello, Cócora — 2022
- Grupo de Madres Pequeñines Felices — 2023
- Institución Educativa Ambiental Soledad Medina — Chaparral — 2022
- Junta de Acción Comunal Vereda El Plan — Herveo — 2023, 2024
- Sede San Francisco, Vereda Montalvo — Planadas — 2022
Valle del Cauca
- Agencia Akua / Akua Agencia de Viajes y Turismo — Cali/Juanchaco — 2022, 2023, 2024
- Araucana / La Araucana Lodge — Dagua/Cali — 2022, 2023, 2024
- Biblioteca Pública Francisco J. Ruiz — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública La Unión — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal Central Didáctica Ladera — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal Daniel Guillard — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Deseo — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal El Retiro — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Rural La Buitrera — Cali — 2023
- Biblioteca Pública Rural La Castellana — Cali — 2023
- Bonanza / Bonzana Reserva Natural — La Herradura, Jamundí / Cali area — 2022, 2023, 2024
- Cafi Occidente / CafiOccidente — Buga and coffee-producing communities — 2019, 2023
- Escuela José Acevedo y Gómez — Cali — 2023, 2024
- Escuela Normal Superior Farallones de Cali – Sede Martín Restrepo Mejía — 2023
- Families and Schools Linked to Coffee Production — Supported through CafiOccidente — 2019
- Fundación Bibliotec — Cali — 2022, 2023, 2024
- Fundación Farallones — Cali — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Nuestro Cuento — Cali — 2023, 2024
- Fundación Progresar — Cali — 2022, 2023, 2024
- Grupo Ecológico UCUMARI — La Mesa — 2024
- Institución Educativa Gran Colombia — Buga — 2023
- Institución Educativa Juanchaco — Colombia Pacífico; distributed via Akua/Aqua — 2022
- La Herradura Community — Jamundí — 2021
- La Leonera Community — Cali — 2021
- San Juan Bosco — Vereda Miravalle, Municipio de Yotoco; supported through CafiOccidente — 2019
Vaupés
- Schools in Mitú, Departamento del Vaupés — Supported through Gaia Amazonas — 2019
Colombia – Multi-Regional & National Initiatives
- Colombia Birdfair – Contest Awards — 2021
- El Biblioburro — Mobile rural library using donkeys Alfa and Beto on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast — 2020
- Vía Esperanza / Via40EXPRESS — Book distribution to Venezuelan migrants walking across Colombia — 2020, 2021
Ecuador
Galápagos
- Biblioteca para Galápagos y el Mundo — Puerto Ayora, Galápagos — 2022, 2023
Egypt
Cairo
- Orphanage in Cairo — Books distributed through Dragonfly Ambassador Grace O’Malley — 2019
Mongolia
Gobi Desert
- Children and communities in the Gobi Desert — Books distributed through Dragonfly Ambassador Lisa LaPointe — 2019
Peru
Upper Amazon / Amazon Basin
- Amazonas Community — Upper Amazon — 2023
- El Dorado Community — Upper Amazon — 2023
- Isla del Tigure — Amazon Basin — 2020
- Nuevo Paraíso — Amazon Basin — 2020
- Salvador — Amazon Basin — 2020
- San Antonio de Cacao — Amazon Basin — 2020
Poland
Łódź
- University of Łódź — Support for Ukrainian refugees — 2022
Rwanda
- Educational Initiatives in Rwanda — Books distributed through Dragonfly Ambassador Ron Haviv — 2019
Solomon Islands
Support & Logistics with the generous assistance of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation.
- Ghupuna Village — Santa Ana Island — 2023
- Nembao Village — Utupua Island — 2023
- Natagera Village — Temotu Province — 2023
Ukraine
- City of Goodness (Misto Dobra) — Chernivtsi, Ukraine — Bilingual books for children, with support from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation.— 2023
- National Library of Lviv / Leopolis — 2022
United States
Michigan
- Arab American National Museum — Arabic–English storytime program — 2022
New York
- Elmhurst Hospital – Pediatric Unit — New York — 2020
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