The Childs Right to Become a Reader
IBBYs Books for Children Everywhere Campaign

Motivation

Eleanor Roosevelt described Jella Lepmans efforts to support peace and international understanding by giving the children of the world access to the best literature as Food for thought.

The IBBY project programme will rely on its international network of more than 60 National Sections to help to produce and develop a book culture for children within regions that have special needs and lack support.

The Campaign includes the following project components:

Books for Africa Books from Africa:

• Workshops for African writers and illustrators
• In-job training for African publishers
• Expanded Book Flood (book collections for school libraries)
• Teacher-training for working with books
• Worldwide Touring Exhibition Books for Africa Books from Africa accompanied by an online catalogue
• IBBY Committees for Regional Collaboration

To develop networking in Asia and in the Pacific:

• Asian Regional Collaboration Committees
• Continuing development after the Tsunami

A campaign for reading in Central America and the Caribbean:

• Workshops for writers, illustrators and publishers
• Creating a translation pool to ensure that IBBYs online and published materials are available to all Spanish-speaking countries

A campaign for reading in the Arab speaking countries:

• Workshops for writers, illustrators and publishers

To keep national childrens literatures alive:

• Supporting independent and regional based publishing in Southeast Europe and former Soviet countries.

IBBY Projects:

The three main areas are:

I Workshops

• Mongolia: producing picture books, 2006
• Rwanda: bringing literary books into the classroom, 2006
• Cuba: Regional workshop, 2007
• Indonesia: Writing for young people, 2007
• Madagascar: The Bobiko project, 2007
• Mongolia: Illustration, 2007
• Palestine: Editing, 2007
• Uganda: Writing and illustration, 2007
• Bolivia: To be ourselves, handmade books, 2008
• Ghana: Publishing, 2008
• Guatemala: Reading promotion for teachers, 2008
• Haiti: Workshops and festivals, 2008
• Malaysia: Publishing and marketing, 2008
• Nepal: Mobile libraries, 2008
• Cuba: Writing and how to identify good books, 2009
• Guinea: Illustration for children's books, 2009
• Indonesia: Illustration for children's books, 2009
• India: Bibliotherapy, 2009
• Mongolia: Publishing, 2009
• Zimbabwe: Reading promotion training, 2009
• Mexico: Readers' training based on school libraries: Creativity in the approach to using books, 2010
• Nepal: Creation of reading materials in minority languages, 2010
• Peru: Training for reading promoters, 2010
• Zambia: Making books and using them in reading promotion, 2010

II Projects:

• Creating Libraries, India
• Books where there are no books, South Africa
• Developing Teacher Training Modules, Uruguay
• Books For Africa. Books from Africa, International
• Indonesia: Relief work using books and stories in Padang, Sumatra, 2009-10

III Scholarships for experts

• Germany, professional exchange visit, 2008
• Venezuela: participation in On-line MA on Books and Literature for Children and Young People, 2009
• Burkina Faso: Librarianship training in Paris, 2010