Scientific Animations Without Borders and Njala University

Abstract

Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) based program that was launched in 2011. Created and co-managed by Julia Bello-Bravo and Barry Pittendrigh, SAWBO is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Center for African Studies on the Illinois campus. It promotes agricultural, health, and women’s empowerment knowledge for people of all literacy levels and linguistic backgrounds throughout the world. This Brief describes the work of SAWBO and provides a specific case study for their work with Njala University in Sierra Leone