New Site – Live Happy
For the past two years Bookworm’s outreach sites have been listed as Chimbel, Cacra, Santa Cruz and Aldona. There has been a need to increase our outreach but no one on the team seemed able or willing to take up this initiative. Thankfully initiative comes to Bookworm. Beatriz Contreras Milla, who heard about Bookworm, immediately […]
LIBRARY TRAINING AND MENTORING PROGRAM 2019-20 Sharing Learnings and Experience
9th March 2020 will be remembered as one of the most memorable moments in Bookworm because it is the day where 15 teachers were felicitated for participating and completing Bookworm’s ‘Training and mentoring program’. it was a privilege to be with these teachers on their journey of learning more about library and how this work […]
Dream – An aspiration
Every individual has a right to dream. A dream to become someone in life. Some dreams come easy while others take strength to even be dreamt. Some require battles to achieve while others are achieved through hard work and perspiration. Some keep altering as the person changes, while others remain constant. Not everyone has access […]
Community Library Children meet Priya Kuriyan
It is always a great pleasure to invite all our all Mobile Outreach Program (MOP) community library children i.e Chimbel, Cacra and Bethesda Life Center into our main Bookworm Library. Children too love to come back every time to the library without any hesitation. It is also at these times where all our three communities […]
Best Cared for Book Award
At the end of the academic year, the books that are a part of the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program are brought back from all the schools. Once these books come back to the library, apart from mending and covering, we analyse the collections and separate the books which are in good condition and the […]
Nature Walk outside the School
One of the best thing about 2nd Lt. Jayendra Jayba Rane Govt. High School, Kudchire, Bicholim school is that it is nested in the heart of nature and one will find greenery everywhere. Just right across the school, there is a river flowing which is utilized by people, animals and birds. Birds, yes, you will […]
NEW LIBRARY IN BORIM
Neil Gaiman writes, “libraries are about freedom, freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communications, about entertainment, about making safe spaces and about access to information. A library is a place of safety. A haven from the world, its a place with librarian in it” Truly, a library is a space which is created […]
New Book Happiness
Bookworm’s mission is to spread the love for reading to every child and one way we do this in the Libraries in School Program is by introducing children to our collection of books. Children are exposed to different kinds of books such as picture books, board books as well as types of books like fiction, […]
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 […]
A Letter to Amy: A Scope for Discussion
I never knew that ‘A Letter to Amy’ by Ezra Jack Keats could be a solid discussion on whom to invite or not to invite for a birthday. This is a book about a boy named Peter who writes a letter to Amy, a very special friend, inviting her for his birthday party. I thought […]