A presentation of the Crayon Magazine (Children's Writing Project) to the FERD meeting in Accra. (2/6/10) at North Ridge Lyceum, Accra

1. The Crayon Magazine Project
A Presentation To
The Foundation For Education, Research & Development (FERD).
By
TYPE Company Ltd In Partnership With
PRINTAID FOUNDATION
2nd June, 2010
Presented By
Nana Bonsu-Amoako
Editor
TYPE Co. Ltd

2. Introduction
• Why Crayon Magazine
– Target: Primary school children from Class 1 to Class 6
1. As a Writing Platform
2. As an Alternative Educational Reading Resource
3. Form an Educational Network serving as a
Platform to bridge Rural and Urban schools in
order for them to learn from each other.
The magazine for young writers

3. Project: Children’s Writing Project
• Under inspiration from the African Leadership
Initiative (A.L.I.)
– The Africa Leadership Initiative seeks to develop the
next generation of community-spirited leaders of
Africa, beginning in
Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and
South Africa.
• Funded by TYPE Company Ltd in partnership with
PrintAid Foundation (an NGO)
– The Children’s Writing Project seeks to impact our
society by offering young children an opportunity to
discover and build up their talent
Its fun to write

4. Project: Children’s Writing Project
(cont’d)
•Our Vision
– To get children writing.
– To improve the quality in the writing standards of
Ghanaian school children
– To bring the writing activity down to the level of
school children and expose them to more
contemporary learning aids.
– To serve as a supplementary to the teaching and
learning of writing as a subject.
Kids love writing!

5. Project Implementation
• The Children’s Writing Project: An initiative of
PrintAid Foundation and TYPE Company Ltd
– With an Office to be setup in Accra, this Project
invites partnership with all the schools that form
part of the Foundation for Education, Research &
Development (FERD).
– There will be two major launches; a media launch
and the official launch to be held at a selected
FERD School.
The magazine for young writers

6. Project Implementation (cont’d)
– This project is designed to be an extra-curricular
activity.
– The first edition of Crayon Magazine is scheduled
to be outdoored in 3rd Quarter 2010.
– Seek partnership with already established or
existing Reading, Writers and Debating Clubs in
the primary schools
– More primary schools would be integrated as the
Project grows.
For kids who love writing

7. Why FERD Schools?
• In partnering with FERD schools, the following
shared objectives and benefits are anticipated:
The FERD schools form the benchmark or standard for
other schools to look up to.
Widely known as centres of academic excellence, the
FERD schools have the opportunity to affirm this
standard.
Pupils from the less endowed, rural schools have the
opportunity to learn from their counterparts in elite
urban schools

8. Our Expectations from FERD Schools
• Support needed from school management and
teachers in organising activities, selecting
magazine content, and sustaining this worthy
cause.
• As direct beneficiaries of the Writing Project, our
partner schools are of utmost importance to this
project.
• Proactive cooperation to ensure the maximum
impact of this project would be felt among the
children.

9. The Crayon Magazine
(Ghana’s most widely circulated kids magazine)
• Examples of Magazine Contents
– Poetry A sneak Preview of
– Jokes the front cover of the
CRAYON Magazine
– Short Stories
– Cartoons
– Counselling Corner
– Teachers’ Corner
– Coverage of school activities
(sports, quizzes, drama, dancing, etc)
– Picture Gallery

10. Partners
• Partners
– TYPE Company Ltd, PrintAid Foundation
– Krif Gh. Ltd, Kingdom Bookshop, Nestle,
Promasidor, UNICEF, etc
– Banks & Insurance Companies
– Once a school agrees to be part of this Project,
that school automatically qualifies to become a
partner with the Crayon Magazine.
– Support from our partners

11. Sponsors
Why Sponsors ?
• Non-profit making venture
• Sustaining free printing and distribution of the
magazine
• Corporate Social Responsibility
NB: Schools are not required to commit any
financial support

12. The Future...
• Focus on Primary school pupils, then pre-school and later JHS.
• Hope to sponsor children in their academic work - focus remains
on improving the writing talent
• Evaluation and feedback to aid us improve magazine (Project)
• Sponsorship: we hope it remains a self-sustaining project
• Assurance that the magazine will remain free
• Free distribution of copies to be expanded nationwide
• Web presence (portal to link participatory school websites).
• Collection of best written articles to be published in a book (that
would be distributed to schools to serve as supplementary
readers)

13. Thank You
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