Ithuba in the News

Former Bastrop teacher launches books for Africa project at UTSA
Margaret Myrick—Bastrop Advertiser, Feb. 25, 2006

“Misty Sailors is helping the United States make big steps toward educating children in South Africa.  Sailors helped the university obtain a $2.6 million federal grant for a program that will send 600,000 books to South African grade schools. 

The program will also give South African children opportunity to read their own languages, since the books will be translated into the nine other official languages besides English and Afrikaans.

While the UTSA’s grant money will go entirely to the Republish of South Africa, the AEI will also aid Ghana, Sengal, Zambia, Tanzania and Ethiopia.  The U.S. Agency for Onternational Development out of Washington D.C. is funding the program.

The team members from UTSA will write the lessons with South African teachers so they will be locally relevant.  The 120 booklets made for 1st thru 7th graders will be made with book-making software that will then be published by African companies and available online for teachers and parents to print. “