Mobile Outreach Program Picnic 2013
It has been two years since our Mobile Outreach Program program got started and as often happens at Bookworm, the children guide us. Our Chimbel site children have been requesting for a picnic for some time now. School picnics were happening and somehow a Mobile Outreach Program picnic seemed like the order of the day. […]
We Walked Through a Jungle
We began this site in January 2011 and have gone through endless strife and jubilation in finding a balance. We are not there yet, but the path is getting clearer. Saturday 27th October, Term 1 of Chimbel season ( June 2012 – March 2013) ended. The team is slimmer now that the NSS volunteers are […]
Chuppi
I am easily moved, I glorify everyday incidents, coincidences as signs to guide my life. At an important place in my life, I found Bookworm. At a time when a choice between good money and good feeling could change my life and my person. I have been facilitating the library sessions at Chimbel for close […]
Teacher, mhaka test di !
Chimbel, a MOP site that overwhelms and excites me. We are still finding our feet, after close to 45 odd sessions over 7 months. We don’t know the demographic, the population, the profiles, the learning levels, what we do know is there is a need. 100 odd children demanding story and books and even 7 […]
Who loves the RAIN
Thursday 28th June,2012 – a wet day in Panjim, a seemingly ordinary monsoon day and then it rained in my soul! Varsha Amonkar a parent and professional who has only observed Bookworm work from afar, has been pursuing me to visit a The National Association for the Blind, Goa state branch in Santa Cruz, that […]
Mobile Outreach Program is back in Chimbel
June 2nd Session included read aloud of “The Village Fair – Gaon ka Mela” a bilingual story book by Radhika Meganathan with pictures by Nancy Raj and published by Tulika. Children shared what they do/see in a fair and it resonated with the book even before we read the book. This for us, is the […]