Help Children's Literature Festival empower children across Pakistan, with advocacy and educational programs based on critically developed curricula as well as hands-on learning, expression, cultural enrichment and more. Your donation will help fund the annual Young Author Awards, a nationwide writing contest for children (age group: 8 - 18 years), currently in its second year, in both Urdu and English. The program creates a rare platform recognition, publication opportunities and mentorship.
Writing is a difficult human activity that involves a variety of cognitive activities for example; development of a design idea, capturing mental representations of knowledge and illustrations. In Pakistan the current practices of teaching and learning creative writing limit our children to either tracing the letter formation, copying from the blackboard, text writing, and filling workbooks/sheets undermining a child's creative expression & writing capacity in both national and local languages.
The YAA attempts to counter the existing problem of lack of creative expression, lack of interest in literature and limited publishing options available to children who want to pursue writing by providing them an avenue to write to their hearts content. The winners stories are also marketed and published by CLF to give children the opportunity to pursue a career as a writer in Pakistan.
The main long term impacts of Young Authors Award include: 1- Creating generations of empowered Young Authors who produce high quality content/literature. 2- Increase literature/books available for children in local languages and to encourage children to observe, think, imagine, create and write. Writing is not just about putting down words but it is a detailed process of transferring one's thoughts and imagination into words. 3- Supporting the publishing industry of Pakistan for young authors.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
