FastPencil and FAVL form partnership!

| No Comments
"FastPencil announced their partnership with Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) as the publisher powering the initiative that brings books and literacy programs to African villages. FAVL now has the ability to take advantage of FastPencil's end-to-end publishing platform, while providing FastPencil with the opportunity to participate in the program that is helping spread literacy throughout the world." Read more of the press release here.
 
Exciting news!  As you may know, Reading West Africa students have been in the process of publishing culturally relevant children's books featuring pictures and stories inspired from their six-week stay at FAVL libraries in Burkina Faso. We have partnered with FastPencil to publish these books and have successfully transferred the books from our previous platform, Blurb, to FP.  FastPencil offers an easy-to-use online publishing platform that's free and provides high quality printing at half the cost of other explored platforms. We are grateful to be working with such a great company!  You can view our current books on the FastPencil marketplace: http://www.fastpencil.com/users/favlafrica

A nice article was written about the partnership and book making project in PSFK.  Currently, we are working on translating these books into English and refining the book making process.  In the future, we would like to translate these books into local languages as well.

Picture 9.png

Leave a comment

FAVL Blog

Books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa by Michael Kevane, co-Director of FAVL and economist at Santa Clara University.

Other contributors include Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, Peace Corps volunteer Emilie Crofton, Krystle Austin, Elisee Sare, and Monique Nadembega.

OpenID accepted here Learn more about OpenID