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

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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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Back to Classrooms and the Glass Half Full... or Half Empty

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Back to Classrooms and the Glass Half Full... or Half Empty

As teachers and students confined to their homes in 2020 and 2021, we thought that the solution to our frustrations would come the day we could get back into the classroom. In this, we were so naïve. Don’t misinterpret me as a negative, “half empty” person, though. This is just reality.

The latest report on learning poverty, The State of Global Learning Poverty, estimated that 57% of the world's ten-year-olds could not comprehend age-appropriate text before the pandemic…

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Social and Emotional Learning in Afghanistan

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Social and Emotional Learning in Afghanistan

The country of Afghanistan currently faces major, major challenges.

Decades of conflict have left a legacy of economic and sociopolitical turmoil. Covid 19 and political turnover have worsened the situation to the point where famine now looms.

And although issues of this enormity require investment from multiple players at all levels, we at SIL LEAD believe that one of the best ways to heal Afghanistan’s wounds in a sustainable and long-term way is through education…

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Problemas de champán / Champagne Problems:

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Problemas de champán / Champagne Problems:

The phrase “champagne problems,” recently popularized by the Taylor Swift song of the same name, describes luxury problems that aren’t so bad in the context of everything else going on in the world. So here’s a little “champagne problem”… our efforts and the efforts of our partner, Juarez & Associates in Guatemala to promote the use of the Bloom book-creation software and Bloom Reader have worked spectacularly well, to the point that the team behind the program has had to scramble to manage all the traffic. We are happy to be victims of such success…

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