Projects
We are engaged in various projects that promote the dialog between people of different cultures. Since 2004, for example, we have been running the project "Mondomedia — Open Libraries" to promote intercultural activities in libraries. We also regularly organize reading tours for "Reihe Baobab" authors. Our workshops and seminars for specialists, teams and students offer further education in the area of intercultural literature for young people. Please read more about the following projects:
The aim of the project "Mondomedia – Open Libraries", which is administered by the Baobab Children's Book Fund, is to encourage public libraries to stock foreign language books and other media for the migrant population and to involve themselves actively with their foreign-language-speaking users.
more about the project
The Gond artist Durga Bai was six years old when sitting beside her mother, she learnt the art of
digna, the traditional designs painted on the walls and floors of houses during weddings and festivals. Now she lives in Bhopal. Her work is still rooted in her birthplace, Burbaspur, a village in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. She tells in her drawings and paintings the myths, the folktales and about the life of the Gond, one of India's indigenous ethnies.
more about the project (in German only)
Together with our funding organization terre des hommes schweiz we started a project in Tansania running from 2009 to 2011. Together with the illustrator John Kilaka (Tansania) and the organization Nelico we will develop an education an empowerment program for teachers, community workers and youth workers.
more about the project