Free online e-books for kids in Khmer
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:35 pm
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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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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