Children's Health Books

This is a proposal. Your comments and criticism are encouraged. Please discuss on the discussion page.

Goals

• Hygiene
  • wash hands, wash hands, wash hands
  • Wear shoes (appropriate countries)
  • Cover mouth
• Disease
  • What are germs
  • Where do they come from
  • How they get inside of you

Books

• Commission local authors and artists to write and illustrate children’s books about washing hands/hygene/etc. in each target country. Release under CC license.
• Apply for grants
• Connect with university faculty/staff in target countries to administer programs locally
• Set priorities for what books should teach. Create protagonists that will be common to all the books.
• Pay artists upon completion of work.
• Format for olpc and release

Advantages

• Low cost – we can pay authors and artists in target countries well without expending large sums of money
• Local relevance – A children’s book written for one culture probably won’t translate that well to another culture. We get both local stories and local art this way.
• If a story does translate well, then we have bonus books all around.

Notes

• There are a couple grants we may be able to go after. The money is out there.
• This proposal will hinge on whether we can create solid working relationships with people in our target countries who can administer the program locally. The local universities could be a useful starting place, unless we have better connections through OLPC. We will be fiscally responsible for any grant money we receive, so we will be the ones responsible for results, or lack thereof.

Computer Games

Create tie-in interactive health adventure games with the protagonists from the books. This is definitely a v.2 objective.