Democratic Learning Services

All the best to the community mentors taking the Nurture+ Kakuma project (by FHE) into the wider community of Kakuma and Kalobeyei this week to educate pregnant and lactating mothers (up to the first year). This exciting project focuses on health and nutrition, including microgardening skills.
I hope the 5-day DLS training and booklet on maternal health and child development come in handy. Remember to check your WhatsApp on Fridays for additional materials.
The Nurture+ Kakuma Project is run by Farming and health education."FHE". It This project was a finalist in the Good Start Challenge providing funding for this stage. Good work by Marcelin Petro and his team.
(Google Good Start Challenge for future challenges.)
Elsa at DLS

As we head into the end-of-year break, many of the organisations presented here will be running holiday activities for children. A great way to make it exciting for children is to tell stories. Here are some good story resources.

Pangea Education has 40+ African-themed children's ebooks available in English in their digital library: https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/lzftf/ - this is a lovely library!

Global Storybooks: The digital storybooks are presented online where you can select from many languages and choose the literacy level. You can even play the audio so you don't have to do the reading yourself! Very entertaining. For African languages, start at https://storybooksafricanlanguages.net/. But there are many others available under https://globalstorybooks.net/.

Bloom is another great site with many good options available: https://bloomlibrary.org/

Nalibali is a favourite of mine with a free digital library: https://nalibali.org/stories/ -- they also offer online training for teachers on encouraging reading, etc.

These should help educators find stories to share.

Stay safe and happy reading!

Elsa at Democratic Learning Services

Pangea Educational Development's Bookshelf | FlipHTML5

Host governments 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 can empower refugees to help their own communities by not charging charity-based RLOs an annual registration fee (or reducing it to a small amount to cover administration costs). The refugee organisations do not have that kind of money 💰💰💰. Many rely on the diaspora or other private benefactors.

💰💰💰The fees represent a large proportion of these not-for-profit organisations' budgets and they end up having to fundraise, only for that money to go to the host country. Using such amounts within these frugal and under-resourced communities instead, would have been money well spent.

😢 Many organisations simply shut down as a result of failing to raise the required registration fees. Their communities lose their valuable services and support. This definitely needs reconsideration.

💡❓How can we bring this to the attention of host governments? Suggestions?