IBBY-Yamada Fund

IBBY Argentina
Literary Mediation and Other Artistic Expressions in Healthcare Settings
Training project for pediatric healthcare teams to enhance mediation practices in art and literature within healthcare settings. It promotes the use of analog and digital tools to create interactive spaces and foster children’s development in hospitals and health centers.

IBBY Chile
Lecturiando: Reading Creation by IBBY Chile
Reading mediation project for children in rural and isolated schools, encouraging literary exploration through award-winning books and expressive arts. The program involves parents and teachers to create sustainable mediator communities beyond urban areas.

IBBY Cuba & IBBY Peru
12th IBBY Yamada Workshop "For Children We Work": What, Why and for Whom IBBY?
Workshops offering direct engagement with leading children’s literature artists from Cuba and Peru. Participants will explore creative concepts and bibliographies to deepen their understanding of IBBY’s mission and its role in promoting children’s literature.

IBBY Dominican Republic
BIBLIOCAB
Reading promotion project providing a rotating library of books to 46 rural schools in Cabrera, Dominican Republic. Through monthly exchanges, each school will gain access to diverse reading materials to encourage a culture of reading among young learners.

IBBY Egypt
Empowerment Through Reading for Refugees & Impoverished Children in Egypt
A reading promotion initiative for refugee and vulnerable children in Egypt. The project offers a safe learning environment to develop literacy, foster a love of reading, and encourage integration between refugee and local children through literature.

IBBY India
Nurturing Critical Literacy through Literature in Indigenous Children
A literacy project promoting critical thinking among Indigenous children in Central India through picture books and diverse literature. It includes workshops with young adults and teachers to challenge social inequities related to gender, caste, and indigeneity.

IBBY Lebanon
Establishing a Juvenile Detention Center Library
Creation of a library in a juvenile detention center, including furniture and a collection of books for various age groups. The project also trains librarians to ensure effective management and meaningful use of the library by young detainees.

IBBY Nigeria
Book Storm – Children’s Writers Training Programme
A training initiative aimed at developing culturally relevant picture books for Nigerian children. Young writers will participate in an environmentally conscious program combining online and in-person workshops on writing for young readers.

IBBY Turkey
Water’s Natural Symphony: Flowing, Moving, Healing Stories
Workshops in Kahramanmaraş using the Photovoice technique, where children document their earthquake experiences through photography. Authors will transform these images into literary works, culminating in a collaborative book aligned with the 2025 International Year of Glaciers' Preservation.

IBBY Ukraine
Library as a Space of Psychological Support for Children
A project to support children's mental health through libraries in Ukraine. Using books and art therapy activities, it aims to build empathy and resilience among children affected by the ongoing conflict.

IBBY Canada
Building a Reading Culture in Indigenous Communities: From Sea to Sea to Sea
Project aiming at creating appreciation and access to high quality Indigenous picture books in Indigenous communities across the country; a curated list of the finest picture books by First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers will be at the centre of the initiative.

IBBY Dominican Republic
Lleva un libro en la maleta (Roundtrip Book Exchange project)
Dual peace education project based on training and book exchange between the communities of two vulnerable neighbourhoods, Capotillo in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and Tetuán, Madrid (Spain).

IBBY Egypt
Capacity Building in Basic Library Management and Reading Promotion Skills in Al Asmarat, New Cairo
Pilot reading promotion project aimed at improving literacy levels and critical thinking among displaced and/or impoverished children; it includes the training of teachers, co-ordinators & parents.

IBBY Indonesia
The Magic of Reading in the Hands of Young People – Let Them Shine
Project centred on the concepts of peace, tolerance and inclusion through the creation of books for schools with Disabilities.

IBBY Lebanon
Library for Refugees
Establishment of a library at the Tahaddi teaching centre for refugees and providing library training to the teachers.

IBBY Malaysia
Bibliotherapy for Undocumented Children in East Malaysia: A Training for Trainers
A continuation of the IBBY Malaysia Yamada project in 2022, this new initiative focuses on the training of teachers and volunteers to conduct a bibliotherapy sessions with undocumented children.

IBBY Peru
Leer en familia (Reading in family)
Technical assistance to Los Olivos Municipality to implement a family support program that ensures the improvement of their parenting competencies through reading practices and book-centred activities.

IBBY Uganda
Developing Creative Writing Interest and Skills Among Children in Vulnerable Communities
To impart skills and promote composing and production of reading materials for children by children; To produce as many books as possible to help in the promotion and development of a reading habit among children, the youth and adults.

IBBY Venezuela
San Mateo Reads More and Better
Implementation of reading promotion actions in partnership with the Kunst Zonder Grenzen Foundation to make reading a permanent habit among children aged 7–14 in communities of San Matero, Anzoátegui State.

IBBY Zimbabwe
Empowering new authors for young people and children’s literature
Workshops and training sessions aiming at empowering authors nation-wide and promoting the creation of children’s contents with the involvement of publishers.