Special Sessions in Chimbel Library
Facilitating a session and making it as interesting as possible for children to have fun in the library has become my objective. In the past few months, the attendance of the children at our Chimbel site has been dropping drastically due to various reasons such as tuitions, prayer calls, games and other activities. When the […]
On selecting Read Aloud stories
“What kind of books should we select for Read Alouds at MOP Chimbel?” was my question in a conversation with our Director, Sujata Noronha at the start of October. The response was in the form of another question, “what trends are you observing in the children visiting the library in the last few sessions?” This […]
Highlights of Cacra MOP in the Month of September
As much as we love to share the love of reading, the children of Cacra in return share their love back to us by coming to the community library at Cacra twice a week.Keeping Bookworm’s vision alive, we try to create interesting activities for each session in order to keep the children’s engagement alive. Some […]
Something as precious as Gold…
Once a week, every Wednesday, we visit a small community library site, nestled within a boys home and for a few brief hours, unfold the magic of stories among them. The session brings together around 10 boys who stay, play, study and work together within this home. In this group is L who struggles to […]
Library as a space for all children
Our MOP site at Chimbel is visited by children across the age groups of 4-14 years, from various parts of the Indiranagar settlement. There are three weekly sessions that are attended by changing groups of children, coming whenever they are able to. In the library sessions, we noticed that children sometimes meet for the first […]
Library as a window between the World and the Community
When I joined the team at Bookworm library, I heard many stories about experiences at MOP Chimbel. From these and from the children coming to the library, I learnt how the community had migrated from different parts of Karnataka, some familiar to me (at least by name or district). The children who come to the […]
Library, Literacy games and Children at MOP Chimbel
As the children’s exams approach in the month of March, some do still attend library sessions, though for shorter periods of time. We tried literacy games as a tool to involve the children (for shorter lengths of time) while staying connected with the library through literacy. So children could participate in a game and then […]
A collaborative Library experience
MOP Site: Indiranagar-Chimbel, Goa Resource Persons: Pranita, Simran, Terence At the beginning of this year, we completed 7 years of the Mobile Outreach Program at Chimbel. Thanks to an opportunity from a sponsor, we were able to celebrate this, with the children. Besides a Magic Show, we planned to display the artwork that children had […]
Magic in the Library
Empty entertainment in the library, kind of goes against the depth of how I feel about library work. Make no mistake, I strongly support fun and games, thrive on laughter and merriment and camaraderie enjoy music, chatter and banter but think it best fits around a collection, or a book, or some other literary themed […]
Series of Fortunate Events
2018 for Bookworm has been a year of many, many events. Some of which we engineer in our manic lets-make-a-difference kind of way and others have happened to us. In a conversation on our meeting-rug, there was a cloud of despondency around us. We had just experienced serious illness in one of our most loved […]