Going Green with Bookworm Jumble Sale 2015
Helping Van
Our trusty red van has done 33762 kilometres, since 2009. This red van has taken books to schools for the past 7 years and till today clocks approximately 250 kms a week. It transports an average of about 1200 books to children every week, drives up hills and down dales. The van carries stationery and […]
Dancing on Walls at Padri Bhat
My Knights at the MOP table scouted around, discovered a small group of 26 houses amidst a coconut grove and stumbled upon approximately 45 children waiting for stories. We had a new site. The name of the ‘bhat’ ( coconut grove) has been contentious because some of the children refer to it as Peter […]
Mobile Outreach Program – Junior – Report – October 2014
MOP (Mobile Outreach Program) Junior, an extension of Bookworm’s Mobile Outreach Program started in the month of February, 2014. It first began at the Tonca Site where numerous toddlers were visible and soon travelled to St. Inez and Taleigao and most recently, about two months back to Chimbel. Presently, MOP Junior operates in all 4 […]
Mobile Outreach Program’s 3rd Anniversary and new MOP site at Padri Bhatt
THREE years ago, around this time of the year; we started the Mobile Outreach Program ( MOP). From then the program has grown in many ways; Pedagogy, Programming, Administration, Reporting and Feedback have been improved and evolved to achieve the vision of the program of taking books to children in underprivileged communities who deserve it […]
Yeta
Like many rich languages of the world, Konkani does not have a word that easily fits good bye. For our MOP site in Cacra, Goa, that has been such a special thing. When we left in 2013, we said ‘ yeta’ to our children. Literally meaning we will be back but metaphorically meaning we are […]
My first experience at Cacra Village…
Written by Melcom Braganza After completing Taligao MOP Junior, We ( Jewel, Niju and I) set out to pay a visit to Cacra for the first time. I was super excited to go Cacra Village. I heard about Cacra village at the Goa University where I study and also from the Bookworm team. The moment […]
Gandhi – Pictures and Stories…
Ahead of the Swachh Bharat campaign which was launched on 2nd October, I was cleaning out the shelves at Bookworm, collecting all the Gandhi book we have and looking forward to a week of reflection and remembering the Mahatma. When we first procured Picture Gandhi written by Sandhya Rao and published by Tulika, Chennai; we […]
Writing with meaning – an incident from Mobile Outreach Programme (MOP) at Tonca
Written by Liza Cherian The red Bookworm van is greeted by a group of children who smile and run towards us. They are all eager to help us to carry the boxes of library books and bags with their activity books. These skinny little children are really strong, managing to take the boxes and run […]
Chimbel after a long, long time…
Written by Barkha I have to admit I missed the Chimbel group while I was away. It has been about a month and a half since I last went to Chimbel. I think we were doing the session on ‘The Sea in a Bucket’ that day. Today was an absolutely delightful session. I wasn’t supposed […]