The Anna Lindh Foundation and partners join forces in offering financial support for the promotion of quality children’s books across the Arab Region

From today and till the 25th of November 2010, publishing houses and NGOs in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria are invited to submit entries of books that benefit children with special needs for an opportunity to receive financial support and to allow children with special needs to have access to quality children’s books.

The “Best Fiction Book for Children with Special Needs”, which is launched by the Anna Lindh Foundation’s ‘Arab Children Literature Regional Programme’ for the First time, aims to promote reading for pleasure among children with special needs, through providing them with access to quality story books or products available in the Arabic language. 

Publishing houses and NGOs can submit their fiction books that are either in a format that is accessible to certain children with special needs (for example Braille and/or Tactile books for visually-impaired children, Audiovisual material with sign language for hearing-impaired children), or address the topic of children with special needs in a sensitive and intelligent manner (such as stories that have children with special needs as main characters) or both.

The Arab Children Literature Regional Programme will support the publisher of the best book through buying 150 copies for the programme.

The Arab Children Literature Regional Programme of the Anna Lindh Foundation is a regional programme launched in 2006 with the support of Sida, and seeks to strengthen the intellectual, social and emotional development of children in the Arab region through developing children literature and promoting reading for pleasure.  The programme is being implemented in the five focus countries of the program; Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.

For more information on the programme and how to apply for the call, please contact:

Telephone: (+203) 483 444 7                                 Fax: (+203) 487 38 55

E-Mail: children.literature@bibalex.org

www.arabchildrenliterature.com