Fairy-Tale Books and a CD
Category: Activities of The Revealed, Book of gorilla fairy-tales, CD with gorilla stories, Cameroon | Date: Apr 10 2009 | By: therevealed
Miroslav Bobek, 8 April 2009
Dorothy Matute, the headmistress of the Bonadikombo school, visited us in our hotel in Limbe, Cameroon. She was the first to obtain a CD with an audio rendition of gorilla fairy- tales from our book ‘L´histoire des Gorilles’ in French recorded by Jan Jiran.
The idea behind the CD is similar to that of the book - to spark interest in gorillas and environmental protection among African children. We are going to distribute it for free to schools and make it available also to local radio stations.
Listen to a story about a white gorilla from our French-language CD. Download link
We have received extremely positive responses to our book of gorilla fairy-tales (which we call “stories” for Africa) both from local teachers and pupils. Yet I was curious to see the results of a survey that we asked teachers from recipient schools to fill in. We have received 32 by now. There is too few of them to make any judgement yet they are indicative of the general perception. What have we learned?
- 88% of teachers developed follow-up activities based on the book.
- 100% of teachers would like to visit the Limbe Wildlife Centre with their pupils.
- 97% of teachers would welcome more materials like that, preferably (in order of preference) an educational book with illustrations, an educational book with with photos, and an adventure book with illustrations. Surprisingly, few were interested e.g. in a cartoon book.
The most popular story with children was ‘How Moja Learned to Fly’, followed by ‘White Gorilla’ and ‘Moja and the Ant’.
The statistics may change as we receive filled-in questionnaires from other parts of Cameroon, so we shall see.
Browse the English version of the fairy-tale book.
Browse the French version of the fairy-tale book.
Are you involved in gorilla protection and would like to learn more about our books and CDs? Please contact Jana Jiratova, jana.jiratova@rozhlas.cz.
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Donations Received
- Aug 20th Pirjo I. USD44.00
- Jul 20th Pirjo I. USD44.00
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- Apr 30th Paula B. USD11.00
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The Revealed was a project of Czech Radio. It was a parody on Big Brother, where contestants were not humans but Western Lowland Gorillas from Prague Zoo. The aim of the project was to inform public about gorilla's way of living and a need of their protection. The show is over, but activities of The Revealed team continue - we develop conservational activities in central Africa.
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We have already supported primates sanctuary Limbe Wildlife Centre, educational project on the north of Dja Reserve in Cameroon. We published Book of Gorilla Fairy-tales which was distributed free of charge into cameroonian schools and which should help to increase awareness of conservation.
We prepared also an audio recording of these fairy tales. The CD "Histoires de Gorilles" will be broadcast in cameroonian Radios.
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