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As part of an ongoing outreach and education program for rural communities, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group’s (SADAG) Iincwadi Zethemba/Books of Hope project combines community healthcare with ongoing literacy education. The corporation produces illustrated books in five languages addressing health and environmental concerns such as suicide, AIDS, and water use. In order to broaden the reach of each title and allow the series to double as a tool for more far-reaching literacy education, an MP3 file accompanies the text.
The books emerge from the collaborative efforts of several groups: South African government agencies interested in social services and healthcare, domestic and international NGOs and development agencies, and civic-minded corporations. This blend of resources–financial, institutional, and intellectual–allows SADAG to produce the “speaking books” on a massive scale while giving the program the flexibility needed to address a wide range of issues in ways appropriate to different groups in South Africa. Distributed by volunteer community organizers and health agencies, each book reaches (according to one study) twenty-seven people, and the titles so far have proven more effective than other types of literature and more cost-efficient than person-to-person education.
. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
