Bookgifting Programmes in the Global South

Chair: Julia Norrish, Executive Director, Book Dash, South Africa
Presenters:
Dorette Louw: Director, Book Dash, South Africa
The Book Dash book-production/publishing model as one way of creating appropriate content needed to start a book-gifting programme; case-studies of other organisations using & adapting the model to create their own books; Book Dash’s adaptation for online events.
Diana Rey: Executive Director FundaLectura, Colombia
The FundaLectura model, and constraints and challenges and how they were overcome.
Melissa Kelly: Early Years Fellowship Coordinator, World Bank
Introduction to the Read@Home initiative and the Materials Guidance produced to support book distribution efforts.