DAR ES SALAAM:WAKANADA 14 WAMEPANDA MLIMA KILIMANJARO KUCHANGIA MRADI WA VITABU NCHINI TANZANIA
Children’s Book Project for Tanzania one of the beneficiaries
Dar es Salaam, June 27, 2014 On July 1st, a team of 14 Canadians begun a nine-day expedition to
the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and back, all in support of CODE’s literacy
programs for children and youth in Tanzania and three other African countries.
Programs implemented in close
collaboration with The Children’s Book Project for Tanzania (CBP),
CODE’s local partner in the country, will benefit from proceeds of the climb,
as will other literacy programs ran by CODE in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mali. So far, close to $200,000 CAD have been
raised.
In
Tanzania, CODE and CBP are currently working in 50 schools in the Kongwa
District in Dodoma Region. CODE’s
comprehensive readership initiative, Reading
Tanzania, aims to ensure that children have access to
high-quality, relevant books written in languages they understand, and that
their teachers have the skills they need to use those books effectively in
their classrooms. CODE’s Tanzanian program helps build school and community
library collections across the country, while supporting the growth and
development of a local publishing industry.
To date, CODE has supported the publishing of
more than 290 titles in the country mostly in Kiswahili ranging from early
readers to more advanced informational texts. In the last five years alone,
over 215,000 books were distributed by the Children’s Book Project to school
and community libraries across Tanzania.
For more information:
In Tanzania
Pilli Dumea
Executive Secretary
Children's Book Project for Tanzania
(255) 713 441138
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In Canada
Dominique Naud
Communications Manager
CODE
1-800-661-2633 ext. 252
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About CODE
With 55 years of evolving success, CODE is Canada’s
leading international development agency uniquely focused on advancing literacy
and education in some of the world’s regions in greatest need. By acting
to establish and ignite engaging learning environments through the development
and publishing of locally authored and designed children books, training
teachers and teacher-librarians, resourcing libraries as well as distributing
significant numbers of high quality reading materials, CODE focuses on
inspiring young minds to improve their literacy and comprehension with the hope
that they become critical thinkers and life-long learners all in working
towards nurturing a literate civil society. www.codecan.org
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