Pratham Books Champion : Lozua Kape

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Loza Kape sent us the following story.

On 8th September 2012 (International Literacy Day), the women short stay home (WSSH) dimapur nagaland. with the rest of the nation celebrated the International Literacy day. The WSSH organized the program along with fun Night at the home. The program started with introduction on Pratham Books and what the program is all about. The girls at the home enjoy the story reading, read out to them by Loza Kape (a staff of the Prodigals home). After the story reading the girls did some activities and did the story reading among them. It was attended by 23 girls along with the staff of the (WSSH) Dimapur.

We have added reading in the daily schedule of the homes and on every Friday 6 pm- 7 pm they have a story reading time where the elder girls take it up and sometimes the staffs take the initiative.

Thank you Loza for spreading the joy of reading!

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This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Ankit Chadha

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

This photo story was sent by Ankit Chadha.

The session was conducted on 8th September 2012(International Literacy Day) at the TALENT centre, Turkman gate. The audience were girls - mostly school dropouts belonging to the relatively less literate neighborhood of Old Delhi.

Apart from reading from Susheela's Kolams, I conducted a short workshop exercise on listening with the participants.

Thank you Ankit for spreading the joy of reading!

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This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Sandhya Sharma

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Today's photo story comes from Sandhya Sharma who conducted a storytelling session in Delhi. Sandhya is doing an MA from IGNOU and is also working as a Hindi teacher in a private school in Delhi. Sandhya wrote to use about her session and said ...

Storytelling session on 8th September, 2012

Storytelling session on 9th September, 2012

Thank you Sandhya for spreading the joy of reading!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations.

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Aarohi Bal Sansar

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Pradeep from Aarohi Bal Sansar wrote to say ...

Briefly put, the reading session was conducted in classes 2 and 3 at Aarohi Bal Sansar ( Uttarakhand ), covering around 36 students, on 6th and 7th Sept.2012 ( 8th being a holiday). They also drew 'Rangoli' or 'Kolam' patterns on drawing sheets and with chalk on the floor.

We did follow up this exercise with an Aepan ( the local folk art of Kumaon) Festival at our school on the 14th of November, 2012.

Thank you Aarohi Bal Sansar for spreading the joy of reading!

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This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Talking Turtles Storytellers

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Deepa Panchal sent us the following photo story. She conducted the storytelling session on behalf of her company, "Talking Turtles Storytellers" and they tell stories to children of all ages. They also do storytelling for street children on a regular basis.

Storytelling session conducted on 8th September, 2012

Thank you Talking Turtles Storytellers and Deepa for spreading the joy of reading!

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This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champions : Geetika Bhat, Ashima Seth and Saloni Zutshi

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Rajesh Khar (editor, Pratham Books) attended the session conducted by Geetika, Ashima and Saloni on 8th September, 2012. He wrote ...

The session in Noida took place in Sai Kirpa temple in Sector 40, Noida and was conducted by Geetika Bhat, Ashima Seth and Saloni Zutshi. About 60 children participated in this session and were thrilled to be there. The story began, like many other sessions, with an introduction to Kolam and then progressed slowly. They also saw a puppet of Susheela, the main character of the story and enjoyed it thoroughly. The children listened to the story, tried their hands at making a kolam and finished by sharing some snacks that the storytellers had brought along for them.

Geetika also wrote to us saying:

With the support of Sai Kripa school staff, we conducted 1 and half hr session with 60 underprivileged children. 

The session started with a short song in signifying the four directions of the world i.e. Poorab,Paschim,Uttar,Dakshin to contextualized the physical location of Susheela.This was followed by the story of Suseela's Kolam. 

Next, a short poem was presented in an animated manner to reinforce the concept of a kolam and its usage as well as different regional names for kolam in India. This was followed by acitiviy - Kite making with paper and Tri color ribbons along with kolam drawing on the kite.

At the end of the activity each of the 60 children were called one by one to present their respective kolam on the kite.

The session ended with the distribution of a chocolate, a storybook, a box of crayons for each of the 60 children.

Thank you Geetika, Ashima and Saloni for spreading the joy of reading!

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This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Swagata Sen Pillai

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Rajesh Khar (editor, Pratham Books) attended the session conducted by Swagata Sen Pillai on 8th September 2012. He wrote ...

Swagata held a storytelling session in her residence in sector-25, Noida and about 35 children participated. She began with a background about Kolamand then went on to read the story, Susheela's Kolams in Hindi. The look on the faces of the little children was amazing when they learnt that Susheela had drawn kolams everywhere! They narrated their little anecdotes of sketching on the walls, in elder siblings' notebooks, on blackboards in their schools and they were quite expressive. Swagata used a laptop to show them interesting kolam designs and the session ended with children learning to draw kolams on paper with pencils and pens. A couple of young mothers also participated in drawing of the kolams. All the children went home with their drawings and tips on how to make better kolams.

Thank you Swagata for spreading the joy of reading!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations.

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.