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Local Books Open Worlds for City Kids

The Children's Book Project had been publishing children's books since 1991. But there was still an acute shortage in schools and public libraries, and it shows: illiteracy among students in primary schools remains too high, according to Executive Secretary, Pilli Dumea, who said children are failing tests because they can't read the questions.

  • Tanzania:  Local Books Open Worlds for City Kids

    allAfrica, 27 September 2014

    Before leaving Tanzania - where she worked on an education project - Jennifer Brookland, a senior writer and editor for Creative Associates International, visited a bookshop in the… Read more »

Creative Associates International

A Tanzanian boy peruses books in a Dar es Salaam bookshop.

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