This episode will take you through how Colette has created these amazing engaging books with her illustrator Leona, to make a heavy topic such as sustainability and climate change easy to understand for kids! She has taken inspiration from her own kids and weaved interesting, funny, and impactful stories for kids.
As Colette quoted, “I wanted to live more in sync with my own personal values and to be a good example to my kids. Being more sustainability-focused was key, but I also wanted to do something creative, fun, engaging and inspiring with meaning and impact. That’s how The Eco-heroes [Save Our World], came to be”.
In 2018 Colette created her own children’s book series, The Eco-heroes writing climate-related stories to raise awareness of the UNSDGs in the UAE. She co-founded her own sustainable self-publishing company to write, illustrate, publish, and distribute the series in English and Arabic.
She has now partnered with a new women-led distributor, specializing in books for impact. A regular contributor at book fairs including the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Colette is a frequent speaker for schools and businesses in the UAE.
She was the Project Development Director for Blue Forest, a UAE company operating in Mozambique, restoring degraded mangrove forests and marine coastal ecosystems when recording the episode, but she stepped down from that position in December 2024.
She also volunteers on the Board for AZRAQ, a UAE-registered ocean conservation organization.
Ebooks are available on their website www.saveourworld.me plus lots of free stuff, updates, and recommendations.
Follow them on Instagram: @saveourworld.me
Email: getintouch@saveourworld.me
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