Mae de Deus School, Corjuem
The Alban Couto Library Program crosses the cable suspended bridge over the Mandovi tributary every Wednesday to take books, readers and the joy that comes from stories to the Mae de Deus Primary School. This is a rather non descript school when viewed from the road, approached through a tiny lane that just about fits […]
International Award for preserving Goa’s heritage and culture
It’s another momentous occasion for Goa when the prestigious Instituto Felga-Gracias Arte e Cultura, Rio De Janario, Brazil, conferred its Arte e Cultura Award on Goans here for their pioneering work in preserving the heritage and culture of Goa at an august gathering at Goa Chitra at Benaulim on Sunday. It comes as no surprise […]
10,000 books issued this academic year in Libraries in Schools
I have been called number crazy and I must confess; I am. Working with a team who is focussed on quality of the work, I might be the person obsessed with numbers more than anyone else. That is the reason for this post, I must confess Two weeks back, we hit a major internal milestone […]
A New LiS School – Mae-de-Deus, Corjuem
Written by Flavia LiS has been in Aldona since June 2012, but June 2015 brought some shocks. We were not able to continue our sessions in the first LiS school to dedicate a room to the library program, Auxilium Carona, due to circumstances beyond our control. Soon after that, another school in Aldona, STGPS informed […]
Watching them watching themselves
Eight sessions later, Alia Sinha engineered a miracle with a group ( 42 to be precise) of boys who find themselves in Std. 4 in St. Thomas Boys Primary School and suddenly realise that they are the seniors in a tiny primary school building. Alia was assigned a production which she accomplished with characteristic passion, […]
Mukand and Riaz- Play at St. Thomas Boys Primary School, Aldona
Written by Alia Ever since the CLCE conference, Nina Sabnani’s words and images had permeated the Bookworm Library like friendly spirits, popping up from the shelves at odd moments. So when St. Thomas Boys Primary School said they wanted us to contribute to their “Independence Day” program with something, Nina’s book ‘Mukund and Riaz‘ seemed […]
LiS is the way our school year ended
Today, we have nearly completed our feedback on 6 of the 7 schools we work with, on the Libraries in Schools Program. We have had meetings scheduled with each school staff and principal and shared our, our struggles and the way forward for LiS to keep going to schools. As I reflect on these meetings, […]
Lis at Auxilium Carona
Written by Flavia Tucked away in a corner of the large village of Aldona, lies the ward or ‘vaddo’ of Carona which is home to a small school known as Auxilium, Carona. If you’re from or in Aldona, you only have to say ‘Auxilium’ and everyone will know what you are talking about. Auxilium is […]
2 years as a LiStener
Written by Flavia About 2 years ago, Isa came to my house and asked me whether I would like to be part of Bookworm’s Library Program in Aldona. It seems they were looking for people who lived in Aldona to help rekindle the reading habit in primary school children. Dr. Mrs. Maria Aurora Couto, who […]
Developing a relationship with books
Written by Margaret Developing a relationship with books and eventually coming to love them , is what we try to encourage in schools. As the saying goes ” give a man a fish and you feed him for a day but teach him to fish and he has food for life“. I first heard about […]