Hilma Weber was born and raised in a small village in northern Namibia in Southern Africa. Her passion for early childhood literacy was prompted by the lack of books in her own childhood and it was only in her early professional career that she discovered the pleasure and richness of reading books.
In 2019, she initiated an Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme for DWN a not for profit organisation in Namibia. She started by distributing boxes filled with donated children’s books to kindergartens in informal / slums settlements and spending time reading to the children. Inspired by these interactions and her own childhood story, she started writing children’s books which were published by Development Workshop Namibia. More than 50,000 copies of her first four books have been distributed to kindergartens and children from underprivileged communities.
She is currently living in Switzerland and continues to write.
