The Mikhulu Child Development Trust works with organisations and governments to train their teams. These teams then deliver dialogic book-sharing courses to parents, caregivers and pre-school teachers across South Africa. Book-sharing is most effective when done with wordless, or text-light picture-books, which we produce and make available to our partners.

Our partners either deliver the full book-sharing courses, or work with us to integrate book-sharing into their existing programmes.

The full book-sharing course for parents comprises eight weekly sessions of 90 minutes. The course for pre-school teachers runs for four weekly sessions of 60 minutes. In each session, parents and pre-school teachers learn specific techniques through watching and discussing videos with a facilitator. They are also supervised to practice with children what they have learned.

We train facilitators over four or five days in small groups. We provide ongoing mentorship through a structured support programme. We can train facilitators of any education level as long as they can read, have basic computer skills (such as using PowerPoint) and have experience teaching adults.