REACH

The REACH trust fund: Improving the efficiency of book procurement in South Africa

The REACH trust fund: Improving the efficiency of book procurement in South Africa

The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund carried out a project aimed to strengthen the South African publishing industry by 1) raising awareness of the critical need for storybooks to create a habit of reading in children, and 2) increasing the supply of quality storybooks in African languages.

What Makes a Great Translation?

What Makes a Great Translation?

Recommendations for Storybook Versioning By REACH Project South Africa June 2018

High quality translations are important because they hold the power to create more quality stories for children to read. This is valuable especially in languages where written stories are scarce. In South Africa, the publishing industry focuses on Afrikaans and English, while African-language storybooks remain few. With quality translations, however, a publisher, NGO, writer or others can take a single written story and multiply it into more.