Workshop Presenter: Dorcas Wephukulu

Dorcas Wephukulu: Coordinator for Saide’s African Storybook initiative (Eastern and Western Africa)

Dorcas is the Eastern and Western Africa Kenya-based Partner Development Coordinator for Saide’s African Storybook initiative. She is a trained teacher with 18 years of teaching experience in Kenya and a writer and translator of children’s storybooks. Dorcas is passionate about capacitating educators and communities in Africa to use technology to actively exercise their agency by developing and using high quality, openly licensed, context-appropriate multilingual children’s storybooks. Educators use these books for the improvement of literacy for children in Sub-Saharan countries who are unable to read for meaning after the first four years of schooling. She is a Ford Foundation alumnus with an MA in Sustainable International Development with a focus on education for those who slip through the cracks.

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