By Dorcas Wepukhulu | Program Specialist: Early Childhood Education
The African Storybook Initiative (ASb) fosters reading for pleasure and meaning for children from birth to ten years through the creation, translation, and distribution of openly licensed storybooks in the languages of Africa, in digital and print formats.
Children from underprivilged communities benefit most from the ASb initiative because they attend underresourced schools. With funding, we can prepare, print and distribute storybooks or distribute tablets to enable digital access of storybooks. Armed with either or both, we can empower educators, parents, librarians and literacy activists, to support children’s early literacy development and lifelong love of reading.
We would particularly support our growing network of ASb Champions working in underserved communities and diverse learning settings to awaken the agency of these communities so they can actively participate in their children's literacy journey. The current set of Champions spread across Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, together, impact the lives of over 50,000 children annually. They would reach many more if they had printed storybooks or more tablets.
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By Dorcas Wepukhulu | Project Leader
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