LiS Showcase 2017-18
LiS Showcase – this phrase popped into my head as we all sat down one day in March, planning for a ritualistic ending to the academic year of the Libraries in School ( LiS) program. Early in August we had Gouthami an NGO Consultant join our team. It was a matter of weeks before Gouthami […]
MOP at Sandipani Library in Sattari
Sandipani Library is a tucked away in Sattari taluka, at the edge of a village, near the river. It is a little library, neat as a pin and waiting. We met Mr Suresh Zarekar , the librarian at the Goa River Draw workshop and he welcomed us to his community library. We decided that we […]
Poetry Summer School
As I drive towards Bookworm this season beginning with the yellow blossoms in my car park to the ones along the Goa University road to the almost perennial Laburnum at the Taleigao park, I am reminded that summer is upon us and that I must help the team at Bookworm blooming. My summer school is […]
Hiring: Full Time Program Assistants
Bookworm’s vision is “To inspire and develop a love for reading as a way of life, nurturing humane engagement in every girl and boy.” We run a Mobile Outreach Program (MOP) based out of our library and office in Taleigao. We are looking to hire Full Time Program Assistants for MOP. MOP carries out weekly […]
I was there!
It was two years or more ago, that a friend of ours at Bookworm suggested we take stories and books to a boys home. This, like most of our work was a new idea and deserved consideration. So, we began tentatively to explore the possibility. We scheduled a date and time and began. We need […]
Nhoi – Goa River Draw
Rivers are like stories. They have beginnings, middles and ends. They are acted upon and act out. There are numerous plots and subplots that emerge within the river and they are our ecological conscience. Bookworm is honoured to birth a project called Nhoi, Goa River Draw with artist Liz Kemp, Architect Rhea D’Souza and the […]
Jumble GQ ( Giving Quotient )
Without children there would have been no library programs Without library programs there would have been no Bookworm Without Bookworm there would have been no Bookworm team Without Bookworm team there would have been no Jumble Sale Without the Jumble Sale there would have been no space hunting Without the […]
An Interview with Sakshi Sunil Mayenkar
Q: When did you join Bookworm and in what role? SSM: I joined BW on the 31st of August 2015 as a library assistant supporting the LiS program. Q: Did you have any expectations when you joined and how have they changed? SSM : I wondered if I would be able to work because […]
Memoirs in the Library
This year I have the joy of teaching a small group of young adults at the library. A group of five middle schoolers who are on the threshold of being swept into the undercurrent of literature and life. Being a group in an open program with an open educator, we have the freedom to choose […]
On the sidelines
We have been tweeting, texting, facebooking, instagram-ing about a new premise in Chimbel for our community library. We are excited. From a small room in a long strip of rooms, we now have a small house, with a porch, three rooms, a Champa tree out in the front and the possibility of so much more. […]