We started Summer….Baking, Shaking…and Reading!
We kicked off our Summer Program with food ! Of course the session was led by me, food lover that I am and evidently tucking it in to go by my returner Eric’s comment. Eric was at Summer Program 2013 and it was joyful to have him back until he looked at me and said […]
Sharada Mandir School batch of 1986 supports Bookworm
Data at the end of this academic year put our ‘unreturned’ MIA books at 405 ! This is significant but must also be seen in light of more than 12000 books rotated in 1 academic year in 8 intervention schools. We recognise that a library program needs replenishment and refreshment. Our work is blessed, it […]
Bookworm partners with Sethu for Autism awareness event
It all began with a request for Bookworm to participate in Sethu‘s Autism Awareness Week event at the Garica d’ Orta Park, Panjim. It was hardly a blue suggestion, and one that required an affirmative response. So, I set to work , thinking of how we could participate and keep reading central. This should be […]
QUEST visits Bookworm
Mid March and Bookworm had visitors. 5 people from QUEST an organisation that works with learning improvement in Thane Dt of Maharashtra visited Bookworm. It always is a powerful reminder that the work we are doing in our small patch of earth is important enough for people to come and observe and learn from. We […]
The Sweetest Mango
It is hard to not know we are in approaching Summer in Goa. Even if you choose to ignore the swarms of hatted tourists on two wheelers and the rising humidity, the scores of mango trees laden with green fruit remind you that sweetness in around the corner. We brought The Sweetest Mango to our […]
Reading Nabiya and More
When I first spotted Nabiya in the newly published collection from Tulika, I felt that faint tingle of happiness that awakens in me when in the presence of a potentially good book. The water colour cover illustrations, the setting of a ‘basti’, the back of an female character with a football in hand, all evoked […]
About blooming
We had picked Leo the Late Bloomer to read across MOP sites last week. Leo the Late Bloomer is a special book on multiple levels ( Like all MOP selection choices, it is strategic and chosen with thought and care!) As a story the central character is a tiger cub. Across linguistic groups the tiger […]
MOP Junior
It has been 2 months now that we are taking beginner steps towards an Emergent Library Program. The idea being to draw the little ones who stand by the fringes of the MOP circle, fascinated by us going around, reading, drawing , colouring but never being part of the program. Multi age program are hard […]
Aldona Community Supports Bookworm’s Jumble Sale
J = Just the right time U = under the rain tree in Aldona M = money raised for the Alban Couto Library Program B = bustle and busy shoppers came through out the day L = lots of support and positive energy from the Aldona Institute Members E = excitement and ever lasting optimism […]
Reading “The dot” at the Mobile Outreach Program
A dot is not necessarily an important thing in the life of literacy. Or so we think. I asked the children at MOP what they would call a dot and they said point, spot, circle, round, full stop, end point, bindi and finally we got dot. Why the fuss? Wise story participants that they are, […]