Celebrating the Begin With Books project with our collaborators in Mali!

Celebrating the Begin With Books project with our collaborators in Mali!

On May 31, AMALAN (Malian Language Academy) organized a dedication ceremony for the 400+ children's books created by the LiNEMA project (Digital Books for our Children in Mali), also known as Begin with Books (BWB)-Mali.

SIL LEAD was the award winner from All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development for this project and managed the project. SIL International Mali was our technical partner in Mali and working with Malian government counterparts to implement the project. The event was covered by a national TV in Mali…

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WHAT IS THE POINT OF ALL THIS HEROISM?

WHAT IS THE POINT OF ALL THIS HEROISM?

That’s a big title right there, and a question with an oversized philosophical pedigree. Especially considering that what we’re going to talk about in this post isn’t philosophy at all… it’s a relatively small literacy program in the Western province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country that many people probably couldn’t even circle on a map. Bear with us, though…

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