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Welcome to WA Shell Books |
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This site has been produced by the "Functional Literacy" project within Wycliffe Associates (UK). We are a registered charity in the UK. If you would like more information about our parent organisation, perhaps with a view to helping support our work, please click here or on the WA logo at the top left-hand corner of this page. (Then look for a link at the bottom of the Home Page to the section that tells you "All About WA".)
What are we all about? Well, we use a concept called "Shell Books". These are "how to do it" booklets produced as computer files that can be printed off locally. The text can be lifted out and replaced in any language - the pictures and all the formatting (the 'Shell') remain. The books can then be used as a resource by literacy workers who are teaching adults to read. The subject matter is generally much more interesting than a simple reading primer! The books can also be used by Community Development workers to teach new skills or to generate interest in new projects.
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We are planning a new development very soon! There are a number of people and organisations that we know who produce Shell Books, and we are hoping that some or, maybe, all of these will allow their books to be accessed from this site. The idea is that they will have their own site(s) and be responsible for their own content, but access to all Shell Books would be via this site, in exactly the same way as for Wycliffe Associates’ books at the moment. Clicking "Download" on our site currently gives a choice of our four languages; when others join us, their lists will become another choice. Selecting one of them would offer further sub headings under which they would list their own books. The current index will be adapted to include all books and show their location. The range of subjects and titles should be increased significantly.
We are planning a new development very soon! There are a number of people and organisations that we know who produce Shell Books, and we are hoping that some or, maybe, all of these will allow their books to be accessed from this site. The idea is that they will have their own site(s) and be responsible for their own content, but access to all Shell Books would be via this site, in exactly the same way as for Wycliffe Associates’ books at the moment. Clicking "Downloads" on our site currently gives a choice of our four languages; when others join us, their lists will become another choice. Selecting one of them would offer further sub headings under which they would list their own books. The current index will be adapted to include all books and show their location. The range of subjects and titles should be increased significantly.
If anyone has, or knows of others who have, Shell Books that they would like to be made available in this way to a world-wide population, we invite you to get in touch by email so that we can discuss further details. Thank you!
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