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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in social, political, educational, and economic systems, thus promising lifelong impacts for many members of the world’s diverse societies. The already marginalized, for instance, will emerge from the pandemic even more at risk. For instance, children from ethnolinguistic communities have faced even  than their peers, including digital exclusion and the risk of being left behind due to a lack of appropriate learning materials – whether in print or digital formats – in their first languages.

Against this background, and in view of the crucial importance of improving access to digital learning materials for distance learning/or continuity of learning for ethnolinguistic minority children, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office in Bangkok is delighted to announce, on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group, and with financial support provided by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the development of open-source digital e-books in non-dominant languages, now made accessible to ethnolinguistic minority children in the GPE-eligible countries of Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste the via the Bloom Library platform.

Project Deliverable

The project has developed more than 300 open-source digital e-books in 27 languages for three GPE-eligible countries (Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste). The digital e-books have been made available on the Bloom Library platform, so that children from ethnolinguistic minority backgrounds can have access to digital learning materials for continuous learning both during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can find a complete list of the project e-books uploaded to the Bloom Library platform below. Please note that some books are still in the process of being uploaded. As such, this webpage and the list will be continuously updated.

Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group Secretariat
Email: mlewg(at)unesco.org

More information about UNESCO Bangkok’s Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education work

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