About The Little Hands Trust

The Little Hands Trust helps to motivate and nurture reading and writing among children in Africa and their care-givers. We do this by supporting and promoting the development and use of children’s storybooks in South Africa and, where possible, in other parts of Africa too in African languages as well as English, French and Portuguese and Arabic.

Our aims are

To support initiatives that promote reading for enjoyment.
To mentor African literary artists, including writers, illustrators and editors, to produce creative and appropriate children’s storybooks for children of various ages with a special focus on early childhood (ages 0 to 9 years).
To collaborate with African publishers to increase and sustain the publication of children’s books in African languages.
To initiate and support translations of stories between African languages, from African languages to ex-colonial languages and from ex-colonial languages to African languages.
To provide information about the importance and significance of reading to and with children.