{"id":927,"date":"2019-05-17T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=927"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:53:07","slug":"empowering-children-one-page-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/empowering-children-one-page-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Children &#8211; one page at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"757\" height=\"739\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Books.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Books.jpg 757w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Books-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that there are fourteen titles published by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LetsLook\/\"> Lets Look Publishers <\/a>in the Sibo Series? Every month we make one of those books free to read on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sibo.co.za\">website<\/a>. Except for Sibo Looks Right, our road safety book, that\u2019s always freely available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These books are all about empowering kids with knowledge. They\u2019re in rhyme (we call it wacky rhyme) are fun to read, with interesting facts and information sneakily woven into the storyline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know a\nperson is not supposed to brag about their own stuff, ahem, but these books are\nbest-sellers because many of the titles have sold more than 2000 copies. One of\nthem (Sibo on the Move) also won awards. How cool is that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yes, yes Sibo, I hear you say, why are you\nbothering us with all this chitter-chatter about your books?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me\nexplain. The way we publish our books is a little different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ginny comes\nup with an idea for a topic and finds funding for that particular book so that\nit can be distributed freely to kids, schools and libraries. (Many children in\nSouth Africa do not own a single book and we want to help change this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, organisations\nlike Gautrain, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Health,\nUniversity of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control, Department of\nArts and Culture, Nash Nissan, South African Agency for Science and Technology\nAdvancement, BASF, the chemical company, Super Group as well as some private\nindividuals have sponsored titles in the Sibo Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics\ncovered are the following (in order of date they were published):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Global warming \u2013 Sibo Makes a Difference<\/li><li>Growing your own veggies \u2013 Sibo and the Veggie\nBed<\/li><li>Saving Water \u2013 Sibo Saves Water<\/li><li>The sea and sustainable resources \u2013 Sibo and the\nSea<\/li><li>Space \u2013 Sibo in Space<\/li><li>3 R\u2019s (recycling, reusing, reducing) \u2013 Sibo\nTackles Trash<\/li><li>HIV AIDS \u2013 Sibo Thinks Positively<\/li><li>Nanotechnology \u2013 Sibo Sizes Things Up<\/li><li>Biodiversity \u2013 Sibo Likes Life<\/li><li>Chemistry \u2013 Sibo Mixes Things Up<\/li><li>Animals \u2013 Sibo Saves a Stray<\/li><li>Malaria \u2013 Sibo Fights Malaria<\/li><li>Road safety \u2013 Sibo Looks Right<\/li><li>Etiquette using public transport \u2013 Sibo on the\nMove<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We still want\nto write on subjects like bullying, careers, immunology, maths, engineering,\nmental disorders, saving money and planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If any organisation out there would like to invest in Sibo and help us empower children, please contact Ginny (<a href=\"mailto:ginz.stone@gmail.com\">ginz.stone[at]gmail.com<\/a>). Of course, you could have a book on your own topic too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also a\ngreat advertising opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun, easy to read books with interesting information woven into the story-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,12],"tags":[195,120,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}