The Struggle
Our Libraries in School program runs through the school year with little or no breaks, and plans change and evolve as each week draws by. This year, we decided to focus our direct intervention with a fixed and focussed number of schools, widening our outreach through a simultaneous teacher training program. As such, the school […]
Libraries in School (LiS) Program
The Library in School Program supported by Cipla Foundation was initiated to enable a library experience for hundreds of children in under resourced schools. The Library program includes story read alouds, engagement activities and story books for home lending to children every week in eight schools in Goa (Three Government Primary Schools, one Semi Government […]
Wall Art at our Chimbel Community library
By Shifa Bi Khan A task much thought of at our Chimbel community library was to make the front sit-out more inviting. What could be done to bring children in? What would scream out loud that it is their library? A discussion with the MOP (Mobile Outreach Programme) team and many ideas in mind, we […]
A Geography of Visitors – A Vision Renewed
I love the idea of people walking into a library space and this year at Bookworm the numbers were high. We are in the old quarter of Panjim between the historic fountain and the legendary chapel and we are a library. So people do pop in and browse, walk through the rooms appreciate our work […]
Community Library Children meet Priya Kuriyan
It is always a great pleasure to invite all our all Mobile Outreach Program (MOP) community library children i.e Chimbel, Cacra and Bethesda Life Center into our main Bookworm Library. Children too love to come back every time to the library without any hesitation. It is also at these times where all our three communities […]
Supporting Readers with Book Selections in the Library Class
Our library classes in schools of listening to the story, playing games, singing songs, discussions and much more fun ends with the most exciting thing for the children. It’s the book borrowing time. It all starts with one of the Resource Person raising the lending register and the other Resource Person saying these words; ‘this […]
Visitors to our Community Library at Cacra
By Stephie Madurai and Anandita Rao Towards the end of November, we had participants from different parts of the country, visit Bookworm for a week long Library workshop. The Wipro Library workshop brings together participants from different organisations, associated with the Wipro Foundation and interested in library and the possibilities it holds. As part of […]
Best Cared for Book Award
At the end of the academic year, the books that are a part of the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program are brought back from all the schools. Once these books come back to the library, apart from mending and covering, we analyse the collections and separate the books which are in good condition and the […]
Finding Treasure
Every child in our LiS program gets to see a new set of books when the year starts and then soon after the Diwali holidays they get to see another one. This year as the Diwali holidays were getting over, the team sat together and thought of ways in which the collection would be opened […]
Nature Walk outside the School
One of the best thing about 2nd Lt. Jayendra Jayba Rane Govt. High School, Kudchire, Bicholim school is that it is nested in the heart of nature and one will find greenery everywhere. Just right across the school, there is a river flowing which is utilized by people, animals and birds. Birds, yes, you will […]