Being Fired, not hired!
At Bookworm Trust we make a concerted effort to keep our blog posts current and updated, even if this means wielding my mighty cursor and shaming and naming people to write down reflective pieces to share ! Yes, irony aside I am often determined to post as freshly as we can because everyday there is […]
Evidence in our community library
“You were selling clothes at the sale, I saw you! “ “ No bags, no miss? I saw you selling bags. “ “ Nazmeen miss was selling bags, Sujata miss was selling clothes “ These are the comments that greeted me today at our Chimbel community library as I walked in on a wet rainy […]
Retreating into Books
Like many ideas, the Book Retreat emerged from a frustration. I was frustrated that a group of Editors at Pratham Books, one in particular whom I have followed from the side lines and whom I know to be intelligent, thoughtful, charming and determined could not see what I was pointing out about books in general […]
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 […]