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Asafeer: Creating Books for Refugee Children
ACR GCD’s No Lost Generation Tech Summit prize winner Asafeer shares innovative publishing model that could inspire other efforts to create books for children in languages they use and understand.
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Blog // November 12, 2019Michigan State University students use Bloom Software to turn local folktales into early grade books
Initiative results in early grade books in 14 languages for children in Benin.
Blog // November 5, 2019A new model for solving the book gap in underserved languages
ACR GCD prize winner Asafeer shares innovative publishing model that could inspire Begin With Books proposals and other efforts to create books for children in languages they use and understand.
ACR GCD in the News // October 14, 2019Apply Now: $900,000 for Early Reader Digital Books in Local Languages
The Begin with Books prize competition challenges global innovators to assemble cost-effective packages of high quality, accessible digital books for beginning readers.
