Bookworm Trust

📚✨ Exciting Opportunity for Aspiring Library Assistants! ✨📚

Are you passionate about books, children  libraries, and helping the children discover the joy of reading? Join our Skill Training Workshop for Library Assistants and take your first step towards building a career in the world of libraries!  Dates: 11th, 12th, and 13th February 2025  Timings: 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM  Venue: Bookworm Library, Mala, Fontainhas, Panjim  Workshop […]

Exploring Belonging: Children’s responses to The Lost Thing

Belonging is something we all as humans experience. Exploring this theme with children led me to surprising and insightful revelations. Recently, I facilitated sessions at Vinay & Jean Kalgutkar Community Centre, Saligao and Aldona Institute Library & Alban and Aurora Couto Community Library, Aldona.  The session was titled ‘Story Exploration: The Lost Thing’, and together […]

Bookworm Holiday List 2025

Day Date Holiday Wednesday 1st January New Year Day Friday 14th March Holi Friday 18th April Good Friday Friday 6th June Eid – al – Adha Friday 15th August Independence Day Wednesday 27th August Ganesh Chaturthi Thursday 28th August Ganesh Chaturthi Thursday 2nd October Gandhi Jayanthi Monday 20th October Diwali Wednesday 3rd December Feast of […]

Exploring Books, Art and Creativity together – Rang Kaarwaan and Bookworm’s journey

Author: Rang Kaarwaan Team Rang Kaarwaan is a women-led theatre and arts-based organisation that identifies and nurtures intergenerational local leaders, guiding them through a transformative journey from awareness to advocacy. We create collaborative and exploratory spaces for community members to learn about themselves and shape community-driven solutions. Through theatre and arts, we create experiential learning […]

CELEBRATING ANOTHER DIFFERENT TALES BOOK

  November, 2024   “Can you come to a Consultation on the Different Tales books ?”    Within 48 hours I had rearranged two other meetings , a presentation, domestic arrangements, and found myself enroute to Hyderabad at the appointed hour – giddily poring over photos and notes from various note books , conversations with […]

पुस्तकालय के साथ मेरा छोटा सा सफ़र

Written by Pooja Kumari मैं परिवर्तन पुस्तकालय, बिहार से फ़रवरी 2023 में जुड़ी उस समय मुझे पुस्तकालय से जुड़ी कोई कामों की जानकारी नही थी और ना ही मैं कोई कोर्स की थी, ऐसे में मुझे पुस्तकालय के काम करने में दिक्कत होती थी, क्योकि मुझे किताबों की उतनी समझ नही थी साथ-ही-साथ बच्चों के […]

Mentoring Journey: Guiding Lights

Written by Diksha Chodankar Mentoring meetings started in the month of March 2024. It has supported me very much in my daily library work. It has helped me to maintain my reading log and to achieve my monthly reading goals. Earlier I was reading only picture books in the library. I was scared to touch […]