Hiring Now–Program assistants for our Community Library program
Bookworm’s community library program is hiring program assistants. Full time and part time positions are available. Graduates from in and around Panjim are preferred. Email your cv to careers@bookwormgoa.in
Press feature: For the love of reading
Bookworm in Goa is a creative space of constant and thoughtful engagement A library appears the most innocuous of spaces, and a children’s library doubly so. But Sujata Noronha, the director of Goa’s Bookworm Trust, knows differently. “Literacy is about reading the world, and not just the word,” she paraphrases Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, […]
The Library Effect
The summer break seems interminable for some children. The heat and the chores of the day are broken by the library opening time. Look outs watch for the team as either a bike or a car or van from Bookworm pull into the lane. Languid young boys struggling to grow up fast into men, watch […]
Beating the Chimbel Summer with Drama and Craft- Its Magic!
Written by Ana and Sammy April 2017, a time when the summer heat was its hottest in Goa and the Chimbel children were looking for fun things to do with their time. The MOP Team conferred and decided to give them something new! Something we knew the children would love… To begin with let me […]
Summer serendipity
Written by Meenakshi Menon An academic requirement it was. So it shall be written; so it shall be done. Cecil deMille immortalised this universal tenet in the biblical classic and I suddenly realised, cocooned in the comfort of campus life at Fergusson College that my time too had arrived to comply with the challenging task […]
Spring cleaning – A Learning from children
It was spring cleaning time at Cacra and Chimbel MOP libraries this summer as most of the children were busy with exams. The Resource Persons were armed with cleaning gear instead of books, just this once. We did not expect that the children will be there too, as their school exams had started. At Cacra […]
Starting Spoken English Program at our Chimbel community library
Indian Public Library Movement came up with a basic spoken English course, ‘Basic Learning Practice: Easy way to learn English’. It contains a exercise book and CDs with audio files that are the references for the exercises. The course material was initiated by the Indian Public Library Movement through it’s network of Public Libraries and […]
Home away from home
Like any other teenager, I had a lot of time at hand that I knew not how to utilise. I considered taking up a job that would give me an allowance of sorts. Knowing that I was in search of job, a kind friend of mine introduced me to Bookworm. For me, Bookworm was synonymous […]
Colour struck Bookworms
I have assisted in a couple of workshops and camps in the past but a lead?? This was my first. I love to draw and paint. I have used my gift of art as a stress buster, as a way to express my happiness, as a way to suppress my anger. But never had I […]
A Rainforest in Chimbel
A weekend library session was scheduled into my day. I would be at our community library room in Chimbel and it would be weeks since I was there, so I was excited and curious to experience the sessions we do at the library through our library educators. The story chosen was The Great Kapok Tree, […]