The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is partnering with nonprofit Worldreader on a pilot project to provide Kindles (s AMZN) loaded with ebooks to 2,300 students in refugee camps in Tanzania.

Worldreader was cofounded by former Microsoft (s MSFT) and Amazon executive David Risher and economist Colin McElwee in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Europe and Africa. It has launched pilot programs providing Kindles to schools in nine sub-Saharan African countries over the past two years, but McElwee said that this is arguably its most important partnership because the UN is “an enormous potential scaling partner” aiding “the most vulnerable people on the planet.” If the pilot works, the program could expand to other refugee camps overseen by the UN.

A student at the Ntimigom School in Kilgoris, Kenya. http://www.flickr.com/photos/48114529@N06/6776770558/in/set-72157629062449936/

The Tanzanian camps house about 105,000 refugees affected by the conflicts in the Democratic…