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With its announcement of its inaugural book picks, a voluntary project in the book sector, Borders Literature for all Nations, has launched a Sustainable Development Book Club to promote books for children aged between 6 and 12 years.
The launch of the club took place at 12 noon June 17 on via a facebook live broadcast, eight days after the founder, Ms. Olatoun Gabi-Williams, announced through a promotional video that her project had joined the United Nations SDG Book Club’s network.
Speaking on the occasion, Williams said that following the model of the original UNSDG Book Club, the Borders Club seeks to encourage children to read books that engage with principles embedded in any 1 or more of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) aimed at making the world a better place.
With the book club, she seeks to help African books published on the continent and in the Diaspora gain visibility in the world’s biblio-diversity.
Gabi-Williams further explained that she has submitted 12 recommended reads to the UNSDGs Book Club, but according to her, the selection process at the UN level is competitive, adding that only 3 to 5 books from the long list are selected every month by the UN Club’s selection committee.
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