Snow Leopard Conservancy -- Education (My Grandmother Says... Tibetan-Chinese Version)

My Grandmother Says...

A collaboration between Snow Leopard Conservancy, Ramailo Kitaab, Save the Children and the Tibet Autonomous Region Education Committee (TAREC), this edition, with new illustrations by Tshering Penjor, is printed in Tibetan and Chinese. The books are being distributed free of cost by TAREC, by the Lhasa Municipal Education Bureau and by staff of the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve. They will promote awareness of snow leopards and the other wildlife inhabiting the mountain ecosystem throughout southern Tibet.

Cover of the Tibetan-Chinese
Language Adaption of My Grandmother Says...

Save the Children is the leading UK charity working to create a better world for children, with projects in seventy countries, including some of the world’s most impoverished communities. They are part of the International Save the Children Alliance, which aims to be a truly international movement for children.

TAREC is the overall governing body for education within the Tibet Autonomous Region. It focuses on policy development and related education issues, including planning activities for teacher training and the development of school curriculums.

Mr. Tshering Penjor is a Bhutanese artist and designer who specializes in creating culturally appropriate visual materials for a wide range of organizations. He has designed materials for the Royal Government of Bhutan’s Ministry of Health, the Netherlands Development Organization, Save the Children, WWF-Bhutan, and Bhutan’s Royal Society for the Protection of Nature.

This is a message from Lucia, a woman who volunteers her time to run Ramailo Kitaab in Nepal:

The trip to Qomolangma Nature Preserve was in many ways inspiring. The best experience was arriving in a desolate herders’ village called Selum in Nyalam County, where I took a quick look at the local school, only to find that all children of grade 1 were busy reading My Grandmother Says... in Tibetan! The kids obviously loved their personal copy, as they handled it with great care. Together with the school books they put their copy back into their dusty, torn bags. It was amazing to find that the Grandmother books looked like new even though the kids had them for quite a while already (sturdy printing!).
Lucia.

We had some money left over from the printing of the Tibetan version of My Grandmother Says..., and rather than asking for it back we passed it along to the Project for the Blind in Lhasa, Tibet, who had approached us about doing a Braille version. The books have just come off the presses, and the children are very happy.

My Grandmother Says...

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