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This sounds like a brilliant idea.

Free online e-book library for kids announced
10 April 2018
The Asia Foundation announced a three-year partnership with telecommunications operator Smart Axiata on Monday to create a digital library of Khmer-language children’s books to be published online for free.

According to Meloney Lindbergh, country representative for the US-based Asia Foundation, the e-books will encourage literacy and promote important themes, including female empowerment.

“We would like to reinforce the message that reading is one of the pillars required to encourage a strong education,” she said at an event held in Phnom Penh yesterday.

The partnership is part of the NGO’s “Let’s Read” campaign, which has already benefitted from Smart’s sponsorship of two “hackathons”. During the hackathons, local children’s book authors, illustrators and editors gathered to create digital storybooks in Khmer.

The two events have already led to 16 children’s books published on the Let’s Read website, and Smart has committed to sponsoring six more events in the next three years.

According to Lindbergh, the upcoming events should see an additional 50 original children’s books published by Cambodian creators, as well as 50 additional titles from around Southeast Asia translated into Khmer. That would add to the more than 100 children’s books currently available on the Let’s Read website.
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Let’s Read! adds 50 new children books translated into Khmer

Phnom Penh, June 26, 2018 — The Asia Foundation hosted a Let’s Read! Translation Event on June 23 and 24 with 10 teams consisting of editors and volunteers, including university students, who collaborated to translate and publish 50 children books from English to Khmer at the Foundation’s TEK4Good, a community space for tech startups. These books are now live on the Let’s Read! platform, a multi-lingual, digital collection of children’s books designed to spark a lifelong love of reading throughout Asia.

Access to books and information is crucial to give free rein to young people’s imaginations, to envision possibilities, and heighten awareness of opportunities. In many parts of Asia, access to quality books and information is limited, especially in remote and turbulent areas. And millions of children who are not enrolled in school lack exposure to books altogether. Because children learn first and best in their own language, a severe shortage of material published in local languages is creating a vicious cycle of failure for the next generation.

These high-quality children books are now available under Creative Commons licenses on the Let’s Read! digital library, bringing the total number of Khmer storybooks to nearly 200. All of the book in the library can be read, downloaded, and adapted for free with few or no restrictions.
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Starbucks and Asia Foundation Support Two Young Women Authors to Create Children's Storybooks
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Cambodia News: Starbucks has partnered with the Asia Foundation's "Let's Read" program to launch two children's storybooks under the theme Women's Empowerment, written by Vatey and Miss Pisey. The two new children's books are written with educational implications and relate to "women's empowerment and the inclusion of deaf people."
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Mr. Paul Lim, Starbucks Manager, stated that the purpose of Starbucks' contribution to the Let's Read program is to move towards a broader society for everyone in Cambodia to be able access books through the Let's Read Digital Library.
He said that the company fully supports the promotion and empowerment of women, especially the encouragement of young writers to participate in the development of children's storybooks in Cambodia.
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Regarding the books written by Miss Vatey and Miss Pisey, Mr Lim said that these two children's story books are full of beautiful illustrations, and as well as providing fun for children, they also contain a lot of positive messsages.
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At the same time, this children's book project is also an opportunity to stimulate the strong creative talents of these two young women and others who aspire to become children's book writers.
Through internships with writers and collaborations with other creative artists, Let's Read is a key player in enhancing their creative talent in order to fulfill their desire to contribute to the long-term development of accessible culture and the growing field of children's storybooks in Cambodia.
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