books

In this book Wiljo Woodi Oosterom describes thoroughly how Silent Work is active in Africa. Why the projects are sustainable and succesfull. What co-operaion with African people requires from us Western-Europeans. The book covers on top the qualities of Wiljo Woodi as a photographer. Reading about the ways in which Silent Work is active, offers simultaneously a view in the life of Africans in Mauritania, Senegal and Rwanda. But most of all a glance at the realization of projects of Silent Work.

Editing: Annemieke Huisingh

Composition: Yvette Boonstra

Price € 10.-

Kleurbekennen; published in 2005 by de Wereldbibliotheek. Wiljo’s first novel about Africa. This novel brings us closer to daily life in Africa in a very special way and describes the process of a woman who slowly submits herself, with suffering and effort, to Africa. A second edition will appear soon.

Novel

Wiljo Oosterom

Published by Wereldbibliotheek Amsterdam

ISBN 90 284 2082 7 254

Children write and draw their experiences during the genocide in 1994.
Stars of Rwanda: texts and drawings made with Wiljo by children about their experiences during the genocide in 1994. She gathered them and they are translated in 4 languages (Kinya-rwanda, Dutch, English and French).

Edited by Wiljo Woodi Oosterom

Publisher and sales: Silent Work Foundation

Obtainable in Dutch, English, French and Kinya-Rwanda.

Communication by visual means.
Behaviour for example: written with Jan van Lieshout; this book deals with the methods used at De Boerderij, a homecare farm for deaf. Also available is a paperback created and translated in English and French with a separate chapter for Africa.

Wiljo Oosterom and Jan van Lieshout

Published by Foundation op Kleine Schaal, Voorhout

ISBN 90 74830 25 0

Obtainable as well in reduced version in English and French

A surprising story by the writer about her deaf and mentally disabled foster son.
Unprecedented: about one of her deaf (mentally handicapped) children, with communication as the central subject.

Wiljo Oosterom

Published by Van Tricht

ISBN 90 73460 57 3