On a single Book Dash day, ten teams of volunteer creative teams work fast to turn enthusiasm, skills and food into beautiful African children’s books that anyone can freely access, print and distribute (see bookdash.org/books to read all our books for free!)
This event was kindly sponsored by the Otto Foundation Trust and the Young Presidents’ Organisation (Durban Chapter). Taking place at the TWIMS Kloof Campus on Saturday the 29th October 2022. Highly-skilled writers, illustrators and designers were supported by Book Dash facilitators to complete a process that would usually take months.
The best part? Everything created on the day is our gift to the world.
Since 2014, we’ve published 186 books this way, and printed and distributed over 2.5 million copies to young children across the country to own. This is the Comrades of creativity and we’d love you to join us!
Submit your expression of interest here and we’ll let you know when we announce the next event!
Experience a typical Book Dash day here, in a video made by SureFire Communications, shot by Jennifer Khumalo and Hangula Lukas:
The team of creatives and Book Dash Facilitators at the BD20 event in Durban
We created 10 books
2 languages
Creative contributors at the event
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