Beulah Thumbadoo
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Beulah Thumbadoo is the founder of Everyone's Reading in Africa (ERA).
Thumbadoo works to promote literacy in South Africa
and globally as well. She founded ERA at the University of Witwatersrand and has developed it into an independent organization. The mission of ERA is to increase the availability of reading material and government-aided adult literacy programs. Initiatives include the BookBox, a portable library of texts, the African Language series, which includes 40 stories in 10 languages, and an annual short story competition.
Thumbadoo campaigned the South African national minister of education to declare 2001 the "Year of the Reader."
In 2000, she was elected an Ashoka
Fellow.
Thumbadoo works to promote literacy in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
and globally as well. She founded ERA at the University of Witwatersrand and has developed it into an independent organization. The mission of ERA is to increase the availability of reading material and government-aided adult literacy programs. Initiatives include the BookBox, a portable library of texts, the African Language series, which includes 40 stories in 10 languages, and an annual short story competition.
Thumbadoo campaigned the South African national minister of education to declare 2001 the "Year of the Reader."
In 2000, she was elected an Ashoka
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, VA, supporting the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka was founded by Bill Drayton in 1981 to identify and support leading social entrepreneurs through a Social Venture Capital approach with the goal of...
Fellow.
External links
- Podcast Interview with Beulah Thumbadoo Social Innovation Conversations, March 16, 2008