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SDG BOOK CLUB: CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF BOOKS — SDG 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

02 February 2022

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Book Club African Chapter is inviting African publishers and/or authors to submit children’s fiction and non-fiction books that relate to the SDG 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION in English, French, Arabic and Kiswahili that help educate children about the SDGs.

 

If you have published books for children within the ages of 6 and 12 years + that relate to Clean Water and Sanitation – SDG 6, we invite you to submit them. Below are the links to the Google forms in the four main languages. A children’s book in any other African language that relates to SDG 6 can be submitted via any of the submission forms.

English      https://forms.gle/BRxTzwZ3HZ17NQbMA

French       https://forms.gle/mvFFqZ8M2W4PuyR36

Kiswahili    https://forms.gle/5SgHfeRxspfVxYu29

Arabic        https://forms.gle/ATFoZb4Y8VMHoYmU6

The deadline for the submission of the book(s) is 14th February, 2022.

Book submissions for SDG 5 were selected and published. To view/download the previous reading lists (SDG 1-5), visit our website HERE.

The aim of the African SDG Book Club is to use books as a tool to encourage African children ages 6- 12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a curated reading list of books published in Africa related to each of the 17 SDGs. For enquiries or application assistance, contact any of the e-mails or contact numbers below: 

  1. APNET Secretariat info.africanpublishers@gmail.com
  2. Dr Wale Okediran, PAWA: waleokediran@yahoo.co.uk
  3. Welda Mouton, UNIC: mouton@un.org
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