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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | March 4, 2012
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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | May 23, 2012
Back To School, Despite South Sudanese Violence
By OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON
EnlargeOfeibea Quist-Arcton/NPRStudents like those of Good Hope Basic Primary School in South Sudan are still catching up nearly a year after independence from Sudan.
May 20, 2012
The teachers’ staff-room is a charming thatched building adjacent to the classrooms overlooking the dusty recreation and assembly ground at Good Hope Basic Primary School in Bentiu, the capital of oil-rich Unity State in South Sudan.
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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | April 8, 2012
Our next book
The Ungrateful Snake…
Our third children’s book is an African folk story adapted by ACBP into a colourful rhyming story aimed at 3-9 year olds. Click on the picture to see a sample, 8 of the 26 beautifully illustrated pages can be viewed right now. Buy a copy for your own children or as a gift via our website, for every book sold we will be able to print and deliver 10 books to remote schools and dedicated orphanages in Ethiopia. See videos of our books being distributed here. You can pre-order your copy here, it will be released for sale in July for £9.99. (+P&P) Or you can make a donation of £12.00 to receive a copy.
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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | March 11, 2012
Ethiopian education
We saw this article on VoA and wholeheartedly applaud the sentiment of bringing the topic into the spotlight. It says in the article that Ethiopia is among the few (African countries, albeit one of the poorest) on track to achieve the goal of universal primary education by 2015.
However, one of the issues also highlighted in the article is that while getting children into classrooms is the easy part, the challenge is bringing them up to basic literacy levels. Books are in very short supply, often there are no books at all. Surveys indicate that many children leave school without learning to read.
We at ACBP started the project of bringing relevant stories in book format to the underprivileged in Ethiopia not only to help preserve the tribal folk tales, but to help the children (and adults) gain some form of literacy.
We’d love to donate some books to this cause.
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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | March 7, 2012
Kassis Porridge Project
February 2012: Kassis Porridge Project is a wonderful project in Uganda with a simple but brilliant idea of providing kids with food at school.
The website states “Less than £20 buys lunch for a child for a year. So why not fund a daily mug of porridge for one or more children? Your support can make all the difference to a child’s life”
See just one of the ways people who care are making a difference in the world!
Posted by: African Children's Book Project | March 4, 2012
Good Work Kim!
‘Shore News today‘ printed an article about a woman who has set up an orphanage in Sudan. Dedication, vision and commitment help her turn dreams into reality and we support her efforts.
Keep up the good work Kim and find us some stories, we will bring you some books……
Posted by: African Children's Book Project | February 18, 2012
Internship in Tanzania
Jeff and I were looking into helping abroad, particularly this summer when he will have some time away from classes. There is an opportunity to apply for an internship in Tanzania for about a month and a half on a visa in order to gain medical exposure and assist those in need over in Africa. We decided that we both should not go since our daughter is so young.
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Posted by: African Children's Book Project | February 18, 2012
Fashion That Gives Back, Handmade Scarfs from Ethiopia
Online shop offers its visitors an opportunity to purchase hand woven scarves and goods made by students’ mothers at Fresh and Green Academy, a private non-profit school for some of Addis Ababa’s most impoverished children. Visit this website to learn more, order yours today.
Friends of Fresh and Green Academy Inc works to feed, educate, clothe, and provide medical care for children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and provides the students’ mothers with a place in which they can come at least once per week to participate in a Mothers Cooperative.
Posted by: African Children's Book Project | February 18, 2012
Africa: Women Filmmakers Tell Their Stories
Drum roll please …. here it is! My friend Genet Lakew and I worked on a project reflecting African women filmmakers on behalf of allAfrica. Blow is the story and you can also check it out at allAfrica.com.
Documentary filmmaking holds a special place in the history of African women’s cinema. In 1972, Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye became the first sub-Saharan African woman to make a commercially distributed feature film when she directed “Kaddu Beykat”.
Posted by: African Children's Book Project | February 18, 2012
BULL JUMPING
ETHOPIA |
The Hamar live on the Eastern side of the Omo Valley in Southern Ethopia…
After the harvest, the cattle-leaping ceremony takes place; the way for teens to reach adulthood, go on to marry a woman selected by the family, own cattle and have kids.
The elders wear their nicest clothes to observe the ceremony, such as blankets made in…
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