Children write African stories

Problem: African children in marginalized areas do not have the opportunity to use digital tools to tell their own stories. The reason this is a problem is because denying children in the 21st century the opportunity to participate in discussions about themselves is detrimental to their  sense of autonomy, independence, social competence an resilience. 

Solution to the problem

• Give African children in marginalized areas a voice to tell their own stories in their own languages to build them as future leaders. 
• Help them  learn how to use digital tools to tell their own stories in their languages, 
• Give them this sense of autonomy and independence, 
• Boost their confidence in using technology competently, 
• Improve their social competence and resilience 
• Have documented stories o boarded on the Cardano block chain for future generations

Narrative

The African Storybook is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in languages of Africa. The initiative aims at Creating a digital library of African storybooks for early reading and facilitating their use and versioning for local languages and contexts, made available through openly licensed digital storybooks distributed by means of web-based Internet and mobile app. Children get to tell stories about what they like and how they live. They also display their cultural items and get to have a voice through creative writing and illustrations in their languages .

KPIs

Output: 1.

 Train and support Eastern African children to tell their in their own languages stories using ASB digital tools  in 2022

Output 2. 

Make ASB repository of digital stories available on Cardano

Activities

KPIs

1. Communicate 10 schools to consult on the best ways to support digital uptake.

2. Develop resources to support use of the digital storybooks in the schools.

3. Train and support  the writing and editing of 500 stories from 10 schools into the ASB repository

4. Develop monitoring tools, and formats for reporting on progress, as well a schedule for support visits.

5. Visit the schools once every two months for a period of six months to monitor progress.

6. On board the digital stories onto the blockchain

11 Visit school management and conduct teacher sensitization

2. County school managers from MOE TSC . KICD for support the teachers use of existing devices 

3.Develop monitoring tools, and formats for reporting on progress, as well a schedule for support visits. 

4. Support the writing of stories through writing workshops include stories 

5. Present the stories on ASB

6.Visit the schools once every two months for a period of six months to monitor progress tracking , training and follow up

7. Onboarding of digital stories on the block chain 

The team 

 https://www.africanstorybook.org/

Virtual Learning Solutions https://vls.co.ke

https://m-lugha.com/