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African Stories for African Children
Kenyan’s community organisation African Children’s Book Box Society has made its aim to provide the children of Africa with books about their lives and their continent. The organisation purchases children’s books from publishers in Kenya and Tanzania. Most Kenya books are in English but several are published in Swahili and some other traditional languages. Tanzania has 80% of its book published in Swahili. African folktales, poetry, animal stories, plays, stories from contemporary Africa and non-fiction books are all collected and deposited into the book boxes. The aluminium boxes are built by local craftsmen and the books are produced locally, creating employment opportunities for local publishers, writers and illustrators.Though the Book Box Society began in 1991 with the main purpose to increase literacy in Africa, it has since expanded its work to include school lunch programs and partial payments of school teachers and librarians. Read more here.
To date over 25,000 school children have benefitted from this project.
For the past 15 years fundraising for the Book Box Society has remained modest. Funds have been donated by family, friends, schools and churches. The response has been deeply gratifying.
In total 232 book boxes have been distributed in Kenyan and Tanzanian schools. In addition 1000 books have been used to establish the innovative mobile book box program at the Nairobi Teachers Centre
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