Develop a Book of Stories for Children and youth
Write engaging stories for children to support fundraising efforts
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Overview
Write engaging stories for children to support fundraising efforts
You have:
- Experience in writing children's books and fiction writing.
- Ability to create manuscripts for book projects.
- Experience writing for children utilizing characters and unique worlds.
- Experience in developing characters and writing in a distinctive character voice.
- Strong communication and feedback skills.
- Ability to work independently and be autonomous.
Contract
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You write a Book of Stories for children/youth to fundraise.You write original manuscripts focus on various areas-education, health, fictions genre of their choice for book projects. Stories are creative and educative for children and anyone “FOCUS ON FAMILIES AND CHILDREN”. You may also illustrate attractive images related to the book story. Suggest time of story, writes/edit manuscripts as appropriate, organizing facts and other material into the most compelling form, Evaluates manuscripts from both in-house and free-lance writers. You grant us full ownership to use them to fundraise after adding attractive illustrations to collect grants to maintain 300 students to school and empower economically their parents through grants for strengthening family income business to feed children etc. Purpose is to fundraise but also make the world a happier and healthier place. We run a children center as a school in community. You become our life consultant.
- COVID-19 Response
Other communications related experience
We run school center with children. But due to covid-19 and its related impacts on economy, the non-profit association face really challenges to run the school center because of shortage of funds. We’d like to fundraise and collect grants to maintain 300 children to school at School center. We will do that by using many stories books with lessons to inspire creativity, and innovative.We willo add illustrations and enable people to download books of stories on website and pay a donation. We will use the best selling website such as Amazon and other to collect grants or fundraise as income to be used : covering costs of Annual non-profit operations at the school center, including rented classrooms and stipends for encouraging volunteer teachers and Provide 300 parents of students at our school with a Family Income Business Strengthening Grants to increase profits to be used for feeding kids, family healthcare card, and cover transportation costs from school to home etc.
Volunteers: 19 needed
11-20 hours per week / 16 weeks
Experienced in Children’s Books writing and fiction writer • Independent/autonomous • Able to creates manuscripts for book projects • Experience writing for kids characters/worlds • Experience with both drama and comedy • Experience developing and writing in a character voice • Experience working with beloved kids IP preferred • Strong communication/feedback skills • Impressive work ethic • Efficient and flexible • Control of your story direction, character development and plot design
Burundi
- English, French
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when your writing inspired or impacted a child? | This question assesses the candidate's ability to connect their work with its impact on children. | Share a specific example that highlights the emotional or educational effect your writing had on a young audience. |
| How do you approach developing a character for a children's story? | The interviewer wants to understand the candidate's creative process in character development. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to make educational content engaging for children? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
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