Travelling Book
THE TRAVELLING WORLD BOOK - what is it?
On Friday 11 February a ‘scrapbook’ was posted from Dorchester's Main Post Office to start a round the world journey. The idea for the ‘Travelling Book’ came from 10 year old James Cooke , a pupil at Dorchester Middle School who, with his peers in Mrs White’s class, had been looking at ways to learn about communities and cultures from other countries. Dorset Community Action Community Development Worker, Kris Hallett was approached and saw that it would be a great project which could be showcased at an upcoming local Festival based around multi-culture activities. Working together, Dorchester Middle School, the Cooke family and DCA have now put the idea into practice!
Following on from the success of the first Dorchester One World Festival last October (2009) and talking to Dorchester resident Khalique Miah, the founder of the Festival, Kris suggested it would be the perfect way to involve children and their communities in multi cultural activities and learning how diverse our world is. She suggested this first book could travel around the world with fixed points of contact, to come back to England in time for the second One World Festival which will be held on 8 August, 2010 when it could be placed on display and people could come and look at it. The journey will take in Holland, America, Fiji, Australia, Thailand, and finally to Bangladesh, to Khalique’s brother, as well as couriers taking pages to Sudan (the Grace Secondary School via our local fundraisers Richard and Claire Budd), Dubai and Japan.
DCA are hosting pages on www.dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk/travellingbook so that the book can be tracked on its journey and the communities it arrives at will be able to get in touch themselves with other communities on the route if they wish. They would also be able to use this site to submit further work which can be put in the book. This first journey has been organised and has to be achieved in just 6 short months, the plan is to post another book in September, to travel randomly and to be returned in 11 months. This will mean whoever receives it will be entrusted with it and then forward it on to a person they know in a community in another country around the world. Full instructions are in the book – and in the event of the unthinkable – that it gets lost in the post, each community are being asked to photograph each page they fill and email them back to DCA so we have a record and can post them up on the site. In Fiji, it is to visit a remote island which is unlikely to have access to a computer and digital equipment – but we are keeping our fingers crossed with the support of Peter and Margaret Long of Cattistock who run the Children of Fiji Charity and set up this contact, with this remote school, that it will work!.
Kris is currently making presentations at school assemblies and showing the children the book’s journey – we will keep you posted!
We would love to hear from you so please get in touch on info@dorsetcommunityaction.org.uk
We can answer any queries, look at suggestions, ideas for other books - the world is our oyster - let's get posting!
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