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Puo Educational Products (Puo) was started simply because as our children grow, learn and develop they need to have access to fun, vibrant and educational toys, products, games, etc. that are available in the languages of our continent. Through language we can all understand one another better, learn about other people's way of life, but also instil pride in our own cultures and traditions within
this contemporary environment we live in.

The Puo website is more than just a space to showcase our educational products for children, it is also a useful resource for those of you raising multi-lingual children. We invite you to use it as a platform to share your views in this exciting and much needed space and together we can teach our children to bua/khuluma/thetha. So explore the site, read our blog, give feedback on our products, and let us help our children to understand themselves and others better through the languages of the continent.

ANNOUNCEMENT: buy online at our eShop!

You can now get our vibrant, quality, fun Puo products in African languages in just a few clicks...our eShop is now open! Find out what others have had to say.

Latest BLog Articles

25.08.10 The Mobile Donkey Librarian

Literacy is coming to some rural Ethiopian children on a donkey’s back. In the Ethiopian town of Awassa, an Ethiopian-American man returned to the land of his birth, and is helping youngsters who are hungry for books and knowledge.

25.08.10 Texting and Literacy

Texting and internet memes must surely be the downfall of formal language, right? Quite a few scholarly studies point to no, actually. While it’s true that conventional English spelling and correct grammar are noticeably absent from the majority of texting conversations, the phonetics are accurate.

25.08.10 10 Tips for Boosting the Second Language

Your toddler may think that he or she's a complete superhero -- and when it comes to language acquisition, it's actually true! As easy as acquiring multiple languages is for small children, the single most important factor in language learning is the quantity of spoken language addressed to the child.

29.07.10 Raising a teenaged girl child

It is two o’clock in the morning, a freezing cold winter morning, and I am wide awake. It takes me a few seconds to realise it was all a dream, the anger, the fear that got my heart racing and that feeling of helplessness.

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