African Storybook Moving Forward

This is a special issue of Saide's newsletter dedicated to our new African Storybook project, funded by Comic Relief. Tessa Welch and team colleagues report on achievements and activities todate.

The Pilot Countries

The African Storybook Project has identified three pilot countries for the project, namely Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Our in-country co-ordinators - Dorcus Wepukhulu in Kenya and Juliet Tembe in Uganda provide a brief overview of their pilots. In the next newsletter we will update you on activities in securing South African pilot sites

African Storybook Draft Stories

This list provides a link to the stories that the project has already published and will be using in our work in our pilot sites.

African Storybook Project Digital Storytelling Course

The African Storybook Project sponsored a four week online course in digital storytelling earlier this year. The course was free to teachers around South Africa. Fiona Beal of SchoolNet South Africa ran the course and reports on the enthusiastic response to the course.

Stories Created by Pupils at Helderkruin Primary School, South Africa

Two teachers from Helderkruin Primary School in Roodepoort, South Africa, participated in the Digital Story Creation course run by Fiona Beal of SchoolNet South Africa, took some of what they had learned back into their classrooms. Here is an account of their experience with the children.