BOOKS & LITERACY FOR DEVELOPMENT

Books for Change: publishing for development
Books for Change was established by CIVA in 1996 with support from the Department for International Development.
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Books, reading and village libraries.
In 1997, CIVA launched a village literacy programme with a grant from the National Lottery's Community Fund to promote and support village libraries as a place in the local community to make books available and encourage reading.
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Village Reading Programme
Our village reading programme aims to bring books to semi-illiterate women in villages... and then enable them to read and discuss the books, and decide what action they can take to improve their lives. We started in 2004 on a pilot basis and are now expanding the programme.
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