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African Publishing Innovation Fund Names Five 2021 Projects These new African Publishing Innovation Fund grants respond to the educational shortfalls in parts of Africa where the switch to digital has left students without adequate resources. The fishing village of Butre in Ghana, the type of rural community in which girls in particularly have faced challenges in accessing online learning because of a significant urban-rural digital divide. Girls are expected to take on childcare responsibilities and household chores. Image – iStockphoto: TG23 ‘Scalable Digital Learning Innovations’ In ...

Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 as Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers got books to refugee camps as well as libraries. Eunice Eyi Dotse, a student in Ghana, studies with a book donated by Book Aid International in the market stall her mother operates. Image: Book Aid International Book Aid’s Tweed: ‘An Incredibly Challenging Year’ As Publishing Perspectives reported in August, Book Aid International’s effort in 2020 was focused on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on school children in some of its mos...

The shop attracting customers from New Zealand and America A SECOND-hand Christian bookshop has now sent more than 22 million books to lesser developed countries around the globe. Book Aid, based on Bridge Street in the town centre, has established three other stores across the country since its formation in 1987. However, regular customers come from as far as New Zealand and America to secure many hard-to-find books for themselves and their churches. The charity was formed at a time when economic crises and foreign currency restrictions were rife, leading to an all time low of Christ...