In early 2014, SAWBO collaborated with students from Njala University at Sierra Leone to create an Ebola Prevention animation. Now, together with collaborators like Thomas Songu, SAWBO is able to distribute these videos and educate members of the community in an simple but effective way that was not previously possible.

SAWBO is excited to spotlight the eGranary Digital Library, developed by The WiderNet Project, one of the organizations that collaborates with us. In many developing countries, the universities, schools, and hospitals have no internet connection due to how expensive is the bandwidth. The eGranary Digital Library addresses this problem by offering a service that moves a large assortment of educational videos onto the subscriber’s local area network so that everyone in the institution can access them without charge.  It has been sent to nearly 1000 locations across the globe, with around 100 new libraries installed per year, and is especially popular in countries like Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Papua New Guinea.  Around 2.5 million people have access to this library of videos, providing them with information about a variety of subjects that range from farming and agriculture to basic educational topics like math and literature.  All of SAWBO’s videos are featured on their recent digital library, so that anyone who has access to the new eGranary devices will have the opportunity to view SAWBO videos.

The WiderNet Project’s newest initiative is the creation of specialized chip-size collections:  eGranary Pocket Libraries. These Pocket Libraries will be used on smartphones, tablets and USB keys.   In developing countries, many people are able to purchase tablets and smart phones even though internet access remains out of reach.  Like SAWBO, The Widernet Project is dedicated to providing access to education to underserved populations around the world and this latest innovation will help reach millions more.  To learn more about The WiderNet Project and their pocket library initiative please visit WiderNet.

Post Harvest Loss: Salt Testing 2D in English (accent from USA). This animation will teach you a method to test the dryness of your grain so that it can be stored it without losing any of the product. 

The first animation of the Ebola animation series 2D, Identifying the Symptoms of Ebola in English (accent from USA). This animation helps you learn all the symptoms related with the Ebola disease.

We have voice overlaid all the SAWBO animations into French, with an accent from Democratic Republic of Congo. Check it out now with our new playlist: SAWBO in French (accent from DR Congo). 

Take a look at the 2 new voice-overs for the Ebola Prevention animation: Swahili (accent from Kenya) and Igbo (accent from Nigeria).
Remember, you can download the Ebola Prevention animation in your desired language from our website:  We now have this animation available in 17 different languages!

Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells in the colon or rectum divide uncontrollably, ultimately forming a malignant tumor. Early stage colorectal cancer has no symptoms, but it is when you want to catch the disease since it is highly curable when discovered early. Screening can prevent the cancer from forming or delay the onset, which is what this project will educate viewers about.

Ebola Spread and Ebola Infection in 2D

After publishing the first animation, Ebola Symptoms 2D, we are doing further work on others that explain the spread and the infection of the disease.  These animations will be added to our Ebola series of videos.