Globally, 250 million children are not achieving basic literacy outcomes. NABU is an award-winning, tech-enabled non profit organization, building a bridge to literacy one mother tongue story at a time. We do this by harnessing the talent of young creatives around the world to create culturally relevant, mother-tongue children's books at a scale never achieved before, and distributing these stories for free through our low-bandwidth mobile application. Although the onset of COVID-19 brought about many challenges, NABU was able to react quickly to iterate its processes and use technology in new ways to create increased efficiencies across our global programs. This presentation will explore these changes and highlight how, through innovation, NABU is bridging the literacy divide in a disconnected world.