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17 April 2020
Last week we brought you Activity 3 which was about the African Storybook Guides and explaining how the guides can help you use our resources successfully. This week for Activity 4  we invite you to join our latest translation collaboration. 

Quick Facts |  Translate for African Storybook

  • There is a severe shortage of contextually appropriate materials for young African children
  •  Children cannot learn to read if they don't have books in a familiar language to practise their reading skills and to love reading
  •  On the African Storybook website and reading app, there are 190 languages spoken on the African continent and beyond available 
  • You are able to translate or adapt any picture book on the African Storybook website
Join African Storybook and other partners in a Virtual Translation sprint of children's Storybooks
A collaboration including Norway, UNESCO, UNHCR, ADEA, The Global Book Alliance, Verizon, The Global Digital Library, Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver, The Asia Foundation’s Let’s Read initiative, African Storybook, Learning Equality and Creative Commons is setting up a sprint to help learning supporters of all types translate children’s reading books into new languages. You can join to help children get access to the books they need to continue to read.

Anyone who can write in English and another language can join this effort to translate children’s books into local languages. Education ministries, teachers, donor missions, non-governmental organisations, technology companies, parents and others who can reach children with digital reading resources are in particular encouraged to take part.

For more information on how to register for the sprint click here to find African Storybook on the list of platforms.
 

Call For Submissions
The Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development invites all writers, seasoned, aspiring emerging, or otherwise, to be part of a collective developing children’s literature in South African languages.
We welcome submissions of fiction and non-fiction across themes and genres in both isiMpondo and IsiXhosa, targeted at children between the ages 2-10
For submissions and enquiries, please send an email to bnjoloza@ufh.ac.za or WhatsApp 071 310 1944
Submissions accepted until: 05 June 2020
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