Team expenses: 18% of funds was spent on team expenses, for distribution and outreach
Translation fees: 7% of funds was spent on the vital translation of our books from English into Arabic and Kurdish.
​Website fees: 1% of funds was spent on website fees, to keep our followers updated and to expand our outreach. 

Book delivery: <1% of funds was spent on book delivery.

Financial transparency
In Kitabna we respect financial transparency in our partners in the humanitarian field. In 2015, Kitabna was registered as a non-profit business in the United Kingdom and pays income tax on all proceeds. By adopting a "non-profit" business model, we aim to safeguard both  the integrity of our vision and the creative process by remaining an independent publishing  initiative.


In the financial year 2015/16, this was a breakdown of our funds and spending.


1) How the project received funds:













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Our Trainings

Since early 2015 Kitabna has delivered trainings to accompany our book distribution. These trainings focus on child-centered learning and practices. We train NGO field staff, refugee camp teachers and anyone in need of our workshop to read, write and be creative with children. Below is a list of the trainings we have carried out to date in the Middle East.

​If you require a training or would like to know more about our 5-day, 3-day and 1-day trainings, please contact us at: info@kitabna.org.

Title: The Cat's Family
Languages: Arabic / English
Price: GBP £4.00

Financial transparency
In Kitabna we respect financial transparency in our partners in the humanitarian field. In 2015, Kitabna was registered as a non-profit business in the United Kingdom and pays income tax on all proceeds. By adopting a "non-profit" business model, we aim to safeguard both  the integrity of our vision and the creative process by remaining an independent publishing  initiative.


In the financial year 2015/16, this was a breakdown of our funds and spending.


1) How the project received funds:













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​2) How the project spent funds:






















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In order of most recent trainings:


November 2015             

Amman (Jordan)        The Norwegian Refugee Council    


                                    - “How to write a story” 5-day workshop for field staff and teachers in Zaatari Refugee Camp.
                                    - “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 3-day workshop for field staff and teachers in Azraq/Emirates    
                                        Refugee Camps, focusing on creating child-friendly spaces for reading, writing and learning.

                                      



Dohuk (Iraq)                The AMAR Foundation        

                                                      
                                      - “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 3-day workshop for teachers in Khanke Refugee Camp, focusing                                           on community cohesion, writing for peace, and book-making in the camp.    

                                         View report here.                             

                               
October 2015                

Nabatiyeh /                    AVSI Foundation   

Jounieh /                        

Marjeyoun                     - “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 1-day training series for field staff and teachers in the                 (Lebanon)                        Syrian refugee  response, focusing on storytelling games and tackling illiteracy in the camps.    

                                                                                        


May 2015


Beqaa (Lebanon)          Education Program for Lebanon


                                        - “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 1-day training series for Syrian teachers in the                                                                        Syrian refugee  response, focusing on storytelling games and tackling PTSD and illiteracy in the                                         camp schools set up in the Beqaa Valley.​



March - April 2015   
                   
Beqaa / Tripoli             The Norwegian Refugee Council
(Lebanon)
                                       “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 1-day training series for field staff and teachers in the Syrian                                               refugee response, focusing on children’s storytelling games and practices. 



February - March 2015                    


Beqaa / Marjeyoun       World Vision

(Lebanon)

                                        - “Kitabna Storytelling Training” 1-day training series for field staff and teachers in the Syrian
                                         refugee response, focusing on storytelling activities and writing in the camps.





Title: La pastèque géante
Languages: Arabic / French
Price: GBP £4.00

​Buying our e-books...

Donations and e-book sales: 7% of income received by the project came from donations and e-book sales from this website.


Commercial sales: 4% of income came from commercial sales of our books in bookstores and private sales.

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​NGO sales: 89% of income came from sales of our books to NGOs working in the refugee response.

Title: Die riesige wassermelone
Languages: Arabic / German

Price: GBP £4.00






​The Kitabna Project was donated e-publication software by 3D Issue to create e-book versions of our books. This was our initial way of making the project both financially sustainable and something that people in the wider global community who are concerned about the education of refugees can connect with. Do you love reading? So do we, and so do the children we are distributing to. All proceeds go straight into our Kitabna Paypal account and on towards the printing and distribution of our books to displaced communities. This means that when you buy your e-book or donate to our project, more and more children can open their hard copies of Kitabna books.





Title: Esraa's Stories
Languages: Arabic / English
Price: GBP £4.00

Title: The Giant Watermelon

Languages: Arabic / English

Price: GBP £4.00

​Book production: 74% of funds was spent on book production, from illustration to design to print.

أنت تعلم اللغة الإنجليزية ؟
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​يرجى الانتظار لفترة أطول قليلا ل دينا الكتب الإلكترونية مع تسجيلات !الإنجليزية من القصة حتى تتمكن من ممارسة القراءة الخاصة بك

Learning Arabic?
Are you learning Arabic? Our e-books could be an excellent way to learn formal Arabic alongside English, German or French.


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​Kitabna currently has 5 books available for purchase. Our books have been procured by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the International Rescue Committee, World Vision, Save the Children International and many other actors in the regional refugee response for Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. ​









If you are an individual or organisation working with refugees or
displaced communities and wish to procure our books, please contact us at info@kitabna.org with your needs.
​Our current prices are:


  • £4 per book for orders of 1000+
  • £5 per book for orders of 50+
  • £7 per book for orders of <50


All books can be ordered using the contact form here.


For commercial purchase our books are currently available in:
Librarie Antoine bookshops in Lebanon 
l'Institut des Cultures Arabs et Mediterraneennes in Geneva, Switzerland.  

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Buying our books...

What will you receive? 

​When you purchase any Kitabna e-book we will email you your unique login to our online interactive e-book of the original book within 24 hours. You can login and access this whenever you like.


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A great gift!

Would you like to send your Kitabna e-book as a gift for someone special? Send us their email address and we will  email them an e-book on their special day! 

"When you buy your e-book, we get  our book!''