Medium: Literary Artist
Website: www.milwayPLUS.org
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Katie Smith Milway, a resident of Cates Hill is winner of the Massachusetts Best Book for Children Award and Children’s Africana Book Award. Her books bring sustainable development issues to elementary and middle school children. They include One Hen:How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference and its prequel One Hen and Then…set in rural Ghana; The Good Garden:How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, set in the Honduran hillsides, and Mimi’s Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It, set in western Kenya, The Bana Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World, set in a refugee camp in Tanzania introduce young readers to global issues – microfinance, food security, basic health care, power of play - and how children can help. An educator movement that grew around her writing led to the founding of One Hen Academy (www.onehen.org), which offers teacher manuals and workbooks that use stories, interactive media and hands-on activities to teach social entrepreneurship.
