Books & Beyond is a collaborative student service project of Indiana University's Global Village Living-Learning Center, the Newark Collegiate Academy, and the Kabwende Primary School in Rwanda. Books & Beyond is an innovative, newly established project which promotes intercultural communication, literacy skills, advancement of education and service learning by engaging students in authoring, illustrating, publishing and marketing childen's books and/or a collection of short stories. Working in pairs, IU’s Global Village students mentor Newark Collegiate Academy high school students and together the partners develop children’s books and short stories to be sent to Rwanda. These books, along with teacher training guides and professional development workshops being developed for Kabwende Primary, will serve as models for the Rwandan students to create their own books. The Rwandan students’ books will be sent back to the United States, compiled in an anthology with the existing stories from New Jersey and Indiana, and will be sold with the profit from the books returned to Kabwende in Rwanda. Along the way, students are acquiring skills in authoring books, mentoring and collaborating, intercultural communication, grant writing, documenting and fundraising.
The project is beautifully explained in a video on YouTube ...Check it out!
You can also view the video and the complete community service project description at truehero.org.
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