tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921431606844547682024-03-06T00:46:07.158+05:30Stories from Pratham Books ChampionsCovering inspiring stories of champions from the field. Gautam Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00040674857056080295noreply@blogger.comBlogger323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592143160684454768.post-46758330952654532282017-09-19T01:49:00.000+05:302018-03-22T01:49:40.324+05:30Pratham Books Champion : Pratham Education Foundation (Gujarat)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Pratham Education Foundation team in Gujarat has always been an active supporter of our champions programme. They sent us this report about the large outreach programme they hosted this year :</div>
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<b>84 STORY TELLING SESSIONS COVERING OVER 3525 CHILDREN</b><br />
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As Pratham Education Foundation, our staff – teachers in Gujarat are always curiously awaiting for
the International Literacy day. For us this day’s celebration through Story is much more than just
telling a story on the day. The celebration involves preparation like other social festivals – Our
volunteers preparing themselves - revision of their knowledge around story, getting things pre
prepared and organized in order to create a joyful environment among children, listeners on the day
of story.</div>
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The Story Kottavi Raja and his Sleepy Kingdom was spread out to 84 places through reaching 3500+ children of preschool, primary and upper primary age group. At many events the parents, community and school teachers were part of the same. The story was edited slightly and presented with variations targeting the kind of audience.</div>
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Preschoolers had been told the story
orally by using puppets. Children of
primary schools were also told the
story orally by using book and pictures
from story. For children of upper
primary classes, story reading and role
play of story was done by upper
primary students. The role play was
performed by the students to their
parents, community and fellow mates.
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diverse observations from these
events and would like to share them
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<li style="text-align: justify;">The children have enjoyed the edition of this particular sentence to the story, <b>“And, still…..the King did not feel sleepy!”</b> And the dialogue was narrated by teacher with gestures considering children’s involvement, this gave a fun element to the children, and held them on the story from beginning to end.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The young kids were not aware of the story characters other than King, Queen and a Jester. Still we were surprised with children’s observations about these characters. After the storytelling session, when the children were asked questions, they could mention the character with some specific symbols than their names/position. For instance, there was a Prime minister character. Children did not know who this person is and his role to King’s kingdom. However they recognized him as a man with sword in his costume as they observed from the puppet.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">After the session, activity related to story was done. Children made colourful drawing of the gifts, which the King wanted to gift to people who gave him suggestions to get a good night’s sleep.</li>
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<li>The children/students were observed to be curious to know what next in the story while story narration/ drama was going on.</li>
<li>Few children were very surprised when they heard about the sleepy king. They had never thought of a king who would not get sleep!</li>
<li>Children were pleased to learn the new word “Kottavi”.</li>
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<li>The story for drama was edited little bit by upper primary students, like, the ministers weretalking about the complex problem - they used current problems instead, like Swine flu problem was described by them during their play-act as Gujarat – Ahmedabad is affected highly by the disease.</li>
<li>When the children were asked about their suggestion to king for sleep then they suggested book reading, watching television. <b>There was much laughter when a young child suggested to king to do homework.</b></li>
<li>The story created so excitement that it got percolated from one child to other child/children, from a teacher to some more teachers, children.</li>
<li>The story role play was done in the different communities and the dwellers, parents were good supportive to the event in order to create a space, gathering all other community children and parents.</li>
<li>The children got so engrossed in story’s role play that they have managed to wear clothes so close to each character and getting things ready to use while enacting.<b> It was a fun moment at one of the event, when the king character actually had a full plate of food and big glass of milk while acting.</b></li>
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<li>Many children, parents, community and school got aware first time for the International Literacy day.</li>
<li>Post story activity was also done in various ways. Drawing and coloring the story character, talking about favorite character, giving their views to king for getting sound sleep andimagine own self as the king and role to be performed.</li>
<li>-When the children were asked what if they get a chance to become a King, most of the answers were emotional - Some said they would like to help poor and needy for their basic necessity. One student said he would build so huge bungalow and would like to give shelter to all homeless. Another said, she would build houses for poor. And the laughter blowout was when one student in the end said, “I would at least not disturb anyone’s sleep.”</li>
<li>Many story tellers have committed their happiness while telling a story and also while doing preparation.</li>
<li>An interesting poem was created by one of our experienced teacher on this story.</li>
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Thank you Pratham books and to this event to give this innovative, beautiful story to feast across many children in Gujarat!</div>
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In its sixth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 5700+ storytellers who conducted 6300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day. </div>
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Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</div>
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Shyamala Shanmugasundaram from Kahani Takbak shares her story of celebrating International Literacy Day. <span style="text-align: center;">Shyamala is a Navi Mumbai based children’s author. Home, Sweet Home; It’s all</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">about leaves and The wandering cloud are the Pratham Books written by her. Learn more about her work on <a href="http://www.shyamala.in/">www.shyamala.in</a>)</span> :<br />
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It was a wonderful enriching experience to narrate the story of <b>Kottavi Raja and his Sleepy Kingdom</b> on
the occasion of International Literacy day. The two sessions were held at Mumbai Mobile Crèche
(MMC), Raheja Labour camp, Airoli.</div>
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The MMC serves as a day care centre for kids of construction workers. My biggest challenge was to
avoid ruckus that would wake up sleeping babies. (It was heartening to see babies as young as 8 weeks
old lying in the cribs while their mothers worked in the nearby construction site.)</div>
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Since the older kids in the age group of 6+ had to attend school at 12 noon, I conducted my first session
for them. Around a dozen kids turned up in their school uniforms. After initiating a discussion on the
importance of sleep, I narrated Kottavi Raja in Hindi adding bits of music and movement. Since I didn’t
know Niladri raag sung by the court singer, I introduced bits of ‘Palta’, which is practised by Hindustani
Classical singers to strengthen their voice. I also eliminated the characters of Sujata and the court
jester. The king’s mom and dad were introduced instead.</div>
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Even before the session ended, some of the younger kids from the Balwadi arrived in the study room
asking me to come quickly as they were eager to colour, sing and hear the story. I asked the senior kids
to draw a dinner menu for Kottavi Raja and hurried to the balwadi where over 30 kids sat in a circle.</div>
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The balwadi teachers drew a moustache on the index finger of every child. As I finished narrating the
story, I noticed a few of the kids were already a bit sleepy. It was nearing lunchtime. The session
concluded with some of the kids performing a bedtime song for Kottavi Raja.</div>
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<b>List of songs created for Kottavi Raja</b></div>
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1) Song sung by Kottavi Raja everytime he wants to call the cook, musician and his parents</div>
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(Tune: Mujhe neend na aaye from the movie Dil)</div>
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To watch on Youtube : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mICI07U38">click here</a></div>
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<b>Neend na aaye</b></div>
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Neend na aaaye …Ho-- -- ooo-- -ooo</div>
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Neend na aaye</div>
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Mujhe chain naaa aaye</div>
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Koi jaaye (cook/singer/daddy/mummy) ko bulaake laaye</div>
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Na jaane kahaan meri neend kho gayeeeeeee</div>
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Na jaane kahaan meri neend kho gayee</div>
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2) Song sung by Kottavi Raja’s court singer</div>
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Saaaaaaa(cough! cough! cough!)</div>
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Sa-re- sa</div>
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Sa-re- ga-re- sa</div>
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Sa-re- ga-ma, ga-re- sa</div>
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Sa-re- ga-ma- pa-ma- ga-re- sa</div>
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Sa-ni- sa</div>
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Sa-ni- dha-ni- sa</div>
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Sa-ni- dha- pa- dha- ni- sa</div>
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Sa-ni- dha-pa- ma-ga- re-sa</div>
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3) Song sung by Kottavi Raja’s strict dad</div>
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(Tune from the movie Sanam Re. Only the last line is changed)</div>
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Akkad Bakkad bambai bow</div>
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Assi nabbey pooorey sau</div>
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To watch on Youtube : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeoFQeiibk8&feature=youtu.be">click here</a></div>
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Chanda Hai Tu</div>
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Mera Suraj Hai Tu</div>
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O meri aankon ka taara hai tu</div>
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Chanda Hai Tu</div>
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5) Song: So Gaya sung by all the characters when Kottavi Raja goes to sleep.</div>
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To watch on Youtube : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPIpJ14qWw">click here</a></div>
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So gaya Kottavi Raja</div>
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So gaya aasmaan</div>
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So gayi hai saari titliyaan,</div>
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So gayaa hai raja!</div>
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So gaya Kottavi Raja (2)</div>
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In its sixth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 5700+ storytellers who conducted 6300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day. </div>
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Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</div>
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Prior to the Literacy Day event, Mansi Vivek Agarwal gave us a little hint that one of the activities that they were planning with the session was the use of finger puppets. But she did not spill the secret that their performance included a stage and these amazing costumes! Take a look at the first street play they conducted in a slum in Coimbatore.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The second play econd play presentation happened today at the KG Matriculation Government Aided School at Coimbatore, more than 70 children participated. </span></div>
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Thank you Mansi and Helen O'Grady, Coimbatore for spreading the joy of stories.<br />
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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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. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Books for All has been a Pratham Books Champion for a few years now. They sent us the first set of pictures from the sessions that took place at 3 of their centres in Noida.</div>
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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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. </div>
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Arthi Bhosle writes about the 2 storytelling sessions she conducted :<br />
<br />Session conducted on : 8.9.16<br />Number of kids : 65 + 35<br />Number of sessions : 1 + 1 <br />Number of champions : 1<br />Language the session was conducted in : session 1 - Tamil, Session 2 - English<div>
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<b>Session 1 - Government elementary school ( morning )</b></div>
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There is no other better way to celebrate the world literacy day than this story telling session ! The school where the session was conducted is a government run elementary school where the kids are from very poor background and do not have opportunity to hear stories with illustrations and props. Majority of the kids were the first timers to hear our story. As the story goes on you can spot their imaginations travels through their gleaming eyes. </div>
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As the author of The elephant bird says , “Who knows, when you go out there in nature, what unexpected friendships you'd form” i just went out in the world & made friends with these young minds. Now they wanted me to visit them often , which i have accepted happily . I mean what else can a teller expect more than this. From now on i will visit them every month with an interesting stories. </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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Rasika Durge sent us the following report from Surat.</div>
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Session conducted on : 22nd and 23rd august</div>
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Number of kids : 200+</div>
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Number of sessions : 2</div>
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Number of champions : 1</div>
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Language the session was conducted in : Gujarati, Hindi</div>
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22/8/16 was a different day for Faizan, Anshu, Irfan, Kamruddin and all others in Shree Mahadevbhai Desai Prathamik Shala No. 206 in Surat slums. Their morning assembly which usually consists of bhajans and news read had something different.</div>
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They saw a poster being put up by the teachers which had some images of happy kids and words written on it. They tried reading “P-R- A-T- H-A- M ….” They could read the spelling but not pronounce it.</div>
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A few kids sitting on the side where I sat with the book having attractive images started whispering to one another “ kitab, kahani, bada pakshi(big bird) “ and all such terms. Teacher’s scolding for not paying attention to the prayer assembly did not impede them from still looking at the colors and images and whispering about it to each other.</div>
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Finally I started with the story reading. Read in Gujarati once again repeated in Hindi with expressions and actions and the kids enjoyed how Muniya and the Gajapakshi were friends as they had similarity of a kind. They too knew that Gajapakshi had not eaten the horse as it was vegetarian and ate only tree leaves etc.</div>
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But they did not know whether the village people really killed the Gajapakshi or whether Muniya was able to save him. For this I made them wait for the next day assembly.</div>
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When I went to the class Kamruddin my 5th grade student and two other kids just started asking what happened next in the story. I asked them to wait till tomorrow. But being impatient little fellows they wanted it all today. I gave that book to Kamruddin who doesn’t know how to read Gujrati (even at 5th grade). He and others who had gathered around him to get a glimpse of the book and the pictures started guessing what happened and forming their own story with the help of the picture.</div>
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Kamruddin wanted to take the book home for read. As just a week ago I had checked the school library and found all the picture books for level 1, 2, 3 which were present in school (SSA books) and had a library period for them for the first time. They took those books home and those who knew reading read them and those who didn’t they just made their own stories out of the pictures.</div>
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They loved reading. And this Pratham book was the most attractive book in their lot of books at their school.</div>
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I told Kamruddin that I wish to finish the story tomorrow after which he can take that book home and bring it back next time. But he just followed me for the full day for that book. Even when his class teacher Ganpatbhai was teaching in class he came after me in 3 rd STD to get that book.</div>
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Finally next day I read the second part and put an end to the curiosity and questions in the minds of all.</div>
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All enjoyed the story and I asked a few kids to come up and tell the story in their own words. We discussed how we should be friends with all and not mock others for their disabilities etc.</div>
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Then after the assembly many of the students from different classes approached me to check the book out. Even the teachers wanted to see the book. Now when I went for my intervention in 5th, many of the kids wanted the book for taking it home and reading it and showing it to their parents. I gave the book to Kamruddin and asked him to bring it next day and give it to the next boy who wants it and so on.</div>
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Currently the book is taking a tour of all the homes in 5th STD at school 206. The kids handle the book with care; Take it home, draw pictures from the book and many of them write the story in their copies before returning because they think they won’t get to have it once again. They relish the book to their heart full.</div>
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This book was a great seed to good reading habits into these underprivileged kids.</div>
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Thank you Rasika for spreading the joy of stories.<br />
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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Shradha from Takshila Educational Society helped coordinate 82 storytelling sessions this year. Here are some of the stories from Delhi Public School (Patna, Pune, Ludhiana and Coimbatore)</div>
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Thank you Shradha for coordinating the sessions and to all the DPS branches for spreading the joy of stories.</div>
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016" style="color: #1155cc;">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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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. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Every year, we send out a mail to all our participants from the previous year, telling them that the registrations to join the 'One Day, One Story' campaign have begun. This year, after we mailed them, we reached out to Renu Seth and Aditi Macwan from the Pratham Gujarat team, she asked if we could arrange for a resource person to conduct a storytelling workshop before the event. </div>
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"... this is just an opportunity to make our teams even better story tellers, for them to be able to do a lot of story telling in classes and also create greater awareness in the early childhood centres by involving the government teams that are in charge of Anganwadis in city", said Renu.</blockquote>
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What a fantastic idea! The storytelling wouldn't stop with one day... but go on to become a part of classroom activities throughout the year. Shefali Nayan (another PBChamp) came to mind. Introductions happened, ideas swapped and Shefali went on to conduct a workshop. Aditi sent us the following report of the session that was conducted :</div>
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Renu adds - "As we have conducted orientations for Anganwadi workers of Ahmedabad (urban and rural) we thought that if they also understood the importance of story telling, and its impact - and that story telling can be done in different ways - using art and activities that help children talk about the story, and, how stories can be invented from the doodles and pictures made by children - it would make story telling in class happen in the true spirit. Sometimes, these small 'how to do' sessions act as a support and encouragement for many of us."</div>
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Thank you Renu and Aditi for extending this campaign and involving many more educators and to Shefali for adding the 'masti' to this workshop. We look forward to hearing all your stories this year.<br />
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592143160684454768.post-79769145161631729172016-09-10T06:03:00.001+05:302016-09-10T06:03:43.463+05:30Pratham Books Champion : Bebook Goa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Arundhati Chattopadhyaya signed up to be a champion even before we formalized the One Day, One Story event. While we were initially testing to see if anyone would be interested in conducting storytelling sessions (in 2011), we received a call from Arundhati. Since then, we look forward to seeing her name on our champions list. Bebook Goa shares her experience on <a href="http://bebookgoa.blogspot.de/2016/09/reading-of-elephant-bird-for-prathams.html">their blog</a> :</div>
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This was the week for Pratham’s book champ and Arundatti read ‘The Elephant Bird’ at Our Lady of Succoor. She was assisted by our student volunteer, Joshua Fernandes. It was read out in the passageway which has been covered from all sides to keep the rainwater away. Joshua helped with the e-book. We used yellow ribbon strips to make the bird’s tail with the help of the children. After the story was discussed and read the children enacted parts of it. The boys were also very keen on playing Munia’s character as she came out as the brave one and the girls were amused at being asked to play a male character but they went ahead and did it anyway.</div>
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Right in the beginning when no one could’ve guessed the ending, the children came up with many innovative versions to prove the elephant bird’s innocence. Someone said that Vayu had been invited by the elephant bird to play; hence he was still somewhere in the jungle. One boy said that Munia trusted him since he was an herbivore therefore he couldn’t have eaten him. It was interesting how children were able to come up with explanations immediately.</div>
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Initially, boys wanted to play the elephant bird while the girls played the role of Munia.</div>
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Soon they switched and the girls played the bird while the boys were more than happy playing the role of the little girl.</div>
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Thank you Arundhati and Bebook Goa for spreading the joy of stories.<br />
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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The Book Lovers' Program for Schools sent us this heart-warming account of the storytelling session they conducted at the St Louis Institute for the Deaf and Blind on 7th September, 2016 in Chennai.</div>
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As soon as we read about the event this year, we—at The ilovereadin’ Library—decided to conduct a session at the St Louis Institute for the Deaf and Blind, Adyar.</div>
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We began a correspondence with the school to fix the date in August, 2016. It was fixed for September 7, 2016 at 2.30 pm, a day when there would be no school functions or exams.</div>
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Our storytellers Karthika and Banu settled on using voice, visuals, actions, and textures as the core of their performance.</div>
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When we reached the school, headmaster John Xavier immediately made arrangements for us to conduct the session. We were ushered to class VI in the block reserved for the visually challenged students. Karthika did a telling of The Elephant Bird followed by getting students to hold a textured metal vase, to help them imagine how heavy and coarse the feet of the elephant bird must have been.</div>
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Banu performed a story about Anansi and the Pot of Stories, followed by getting students to hold a calabash that featured in the story. We also donated four English storybooks in Braille that we procured from the Indian Association for the Blind in Madurai to the school.</div>
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Mrs Delsy, a teacher for the hearing impaired children, was kind enough to depict the story for the children in sign language as we narrated the tale of The Elephant Bird. The students identified with Munia’s cause and cheered as she saved the elephant bird. They enjoyed seeing the pictures immensely after hearing the story. The joy on their faces when they saw the image on paper that connected to the image in their head was a sight to behold.</div>
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Banu did a storytelling of Plop! that the students enthusiastically participated in. We left behind our copy of The Elephant Bird, in English, for the students to read. This was sent to us by Pratham Books for the event. We also left a copy of The Elephant Bird in Tamil that we had printed out for the students to reconnect with the story.</div>
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Thank you Karthika, Banu and the Book Lovers' Program for Schools for spreading the joy of stories.<br />
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Arthi Anand Navaneet shared these pictures of the storytelling sessions she conducted this year. Arthi is the voice of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artstales/">Art's Tales with Arthi Anand</a>, a weekend story telling initiative.</div>
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This year was a little different for Arthi. Having moved to a new country, she still managed to conduct a session from where she became a #PBChamp 5 years ago! </div>
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In Arthi's words ...</div>
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Ejjipura Ananda Vidyalaya is where I turned into a Pratham Books Champion five years ago.</div>
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Despite some network issues on Skype, the connection did not falter with one of my favourite story groups!</div>
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The story helped us touch upon unlikely friendships, the 'elephant bird' origin and animal protection. The children indulged in colouring as well.</div>
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Arthi's second session took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. Apart from the story, finding the elephant bird's home on the map and lots of colouring ensued!</div>
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. <a href="http://champions.prathambooks.org/search/label/2016">View more stories</a> from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. </div>
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The Snehadhara Foundation team is all set to conduct 15 storytelling sessions. They already started before 10th and gave us a few glimpses into the absolute fun they are having!</div>
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Glimpses of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SnehadharaFoundation/">Snehadhara Foundation</a> @ Pratham Books Champion first day’s story telling sessions.<br />
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Our first story session was at JPA, Jayanagar 9th Block, The 60 children from Grades 1 to 5 were enthralled by Munia/Gowri’s journey with the Elephant bird. Her joys were there’s and her travails too. They joined in with the songs and sang them long after the story ended.</div>
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The 50 children at the Government school Hulimavu, were similarly very enthusiastic. Grades 6 to 9 were in a combined group and the terrace reverberated with the sounds of the various characters, their diverse colours and the drum beat added to the drama. The children named the characters, owned their unique traits and sang and emoted with gusto. A fitting beginning to the tale of friendship and courage.</div>
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In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog.
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Aarti Srinivasan has been volunteering as a Pratham Books champion for a few years now. She sends us some pictures from the first session she conducted for kids at the Salvation Army this year. </div>
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Session conducted on : 7th September</div>
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Number of kids : 20</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592143160684454768.post-26763561743552839072016-09-09T16:06:00.000+05:302016-09-09T16:25:19.376+05:30Pratham Books Champion : Divya Mohan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Divya Mohan is a Gandhi Fellow and sent us this report about her session at a government school in Surat.<br />
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Session conducted on : 1st and 2nd September</div>
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Number of kids : 300</div>
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Number of champions : 15</div>
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Language the session was conducted in : Gujarati<br />
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<b>In assembly -</b>Good Morning Bachoo...<br />
Kahani kitne logo ko passand hai??<br />
Many hands popped out!!!<br />
This is how it all started. I told them that now for 2 days we will enact a story in assembly.<br />
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All students got excited. It was a first time experience for them. Eagerness on their face made me more confident that this approach will make assembly more enjoyable. I told them this week 5th class will be executing it and from next week onwards each class will come up with new stories and will be enacting it in assembly.</div>
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Even teachers liked the idea and made it their duty to allocate dates to the classes for storytelling.</div>
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With the help of 5th class teacher, 15 students were selected and we guided them. But it was all their creativity and hard work that the drama was a great success. Story was divided into 2 halves where the first half of the story was enacted on first day and other half on the second day so that the children got curious to know the second half of the story. It was noticed that on the very first day children of class 3 who generally don’t speak much came to me and asked Dii.. aage kya hua tha??</div>
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At that time I realized that story telling can be used as a very useful tool to reduce absenteeism.</div>
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Benefits of storytelling through drama<br />
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In its fifth edition of the <a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2016/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">'One Day - One Story' campaign</a>, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement.<br />
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In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog.<br />
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View more stories from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016.<br />
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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.<br />
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<b> Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592143160684454768.post-90196069962823291152016-03-24T11:50:00.001+05:302016-04-07T17:51:22.947+05:30Pratham Books Champion : Arthi Anand Navaneet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Arthi used the stories '<a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/4772-dum-dum-a-dum-biryani">Dum, Dum-a-Dum Biryani</a>' and '<a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/3566-how-does-the-toothpaste-get-into-the-tube">How Does the Toothpaste Get into the Tube?</a>' along with 'The King's Bed' (<span style="text-align: justify;">a clever story on standards measurements)</span> for her storytelling session. "I<span style="text-align: justify;">nterspersed with some fun experiments by the children- a delightful experience indeed," says Arthi.</span></div>
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Wonder Why Week was a week-long (28th February- 6th March, 2016) celebration of picture books that introduce children to topics from robotics and measurement, to genes and forest canopies. These new titles were created under a grant from the Oracle Giving Initiative and touch upon Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. You can see some of these titles<a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bquery%5D=oracle&button=">here</a>.</div>
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Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I conducted two storytelling sessions </span><span style="text-align: justify;">of the story "<a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/4407-let-s-go-seed-collecting">Lets Go Seed collecting</a>" with the school kids I work with.</span><br />
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First session was with around 35 kids of govt school, Gandhi bazar, Bangalore. I dislpayed the PDF version of the book on laptop as I wanted them to see the colorful illustrations. It was a first time experience for all of them and no need to say how much did they enjoy :) {they closed the windows to get a theater like effect ;)}</div>
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The story was read aloud to them in English, and we discussed about it in Kannada and they were all happy to share about all the things that they get to pick on the roads.</div>
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Second session had around 25 kids of class 1,2 & 3 of the other school. Here, it was a story telling session in Kannada. Initially, nobody was ready to say that they too pick things on the road. After listening to the story, almost everybody proudly said that they too are like Tooka and Poi. Only thing missing is Inji ;)</div>
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It was also very interesting to know from them what are the things that they do on their way back to home from school. Two girls said that, everyday they fill their water bottles from school n water the random plants and trees on the road. So much to learn from them :)</div>
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Wonder Why Week was a week-long (28th February- 6th March, 2016) celebration of picture books that introduce children to topics from robotics and measurement, to genes and forest canopies. These new titles were created under a grant from the Oracle Giving Initiative and touch upon Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. You can see some of these titles <a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bquery%5D=oracle&button=">here</a>.</div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Dora Vandana.J sends us this story of a session she conducted with Avanti Badhe.</div>
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We conducted one day one story event in Sharon's school , Pondicherry. It is a school exclusive for special kids run by Mr.Mohan, an auto driver.</div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. </div>
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You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.</div>
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A.G.Prakash sent us the following report and pictures about the storytelling session conducted at Sri.Ayyappan Educational Institutions.</div>
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Session conducted on : 8th September</div>
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Number of champions : 22</div>
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Story -Telling session was held at Sri.Ayyappan Educational Institutions, Jayamahal, Bangalore, Karnataka on 8th September 2015. Children enacted the play. More than 515 students , 25 teachers and some parents witnessed play and enjoyed the play. It was directed by Mrs .Salma and Ms. Mohana bai. Costumes and make up by Mrs .Rizwana.</div>
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In its fourth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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When we chose 'The Boy and the Drum' as the chosen book for this year's event, we were hoping that we would get to see kids enacting the play. One of the first pictures we saw of kids preparing for the grand show were the ones that Tanu Shree Singh started sharing with us. Tanu Shree tell us more about how the play took shape with The Travelling Nautanki...<br />
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Number of kids : 30 + 40 = 70<br />
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That is how it started. I enrolled for #PBChamps this year and sure enough the book came within a few days. When I read it, and realised that it was a play, I figured I had two choices - adapt it to a story, or get people to actually act in it. The first option was enticing. But then I went and asked my boys aged 12 and 14. They nodded and hence started the madness. Ishaan Singh (14 years) and Vivaan Singh (12 year) roped their friends in and soon The Travelling Nautanki was born! Ishita Kalra (14 years), Roza Majumdar (14 years), Prisha MainRai (12 years) and Nidhipa Dev Mainrai (9 years) joined us and roles were assigned. All hell broke loose as we struggled to take the play ahead. I had never acted in a play (unless being a tree counts) and neither had I directed one. The children had mostly participated in group events at school. </div>
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The next three weeks were spent practicing relentlessly - dialogues were learnt, minor changes made, props prepared and more practice done. The minor change in question being that we changed it to Ladli from Ladla. We hope that we will be forgiven for that. We even made a mobile horse (stuck on a toddler scooter)! Then came the big day! Morning saw us packing the Travelling Nautanki up and leaving for Savera. This is a school for the economically disadvantaged children. There were around 30 children here who thoroughly enjoyed the play. Everything went off smoothly barring one incident of the horse toppling over! Well our horsie is like that - he drops off to sleep without a warning. The play was followed by an art session where everyone made scratch-art cards for others using oil pastels.<br />
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I have never had so much fun during story telling sessions that I hold alone. It was lovely watching the six participants come out of their shells, innovate and give their best. The joy increased exponentially, when, after the play, they helped the children with art. On our way back incessant conversation and requests filled the car:</div>
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Thank you Tanu Shree for helping coordinate this event and to the Travelling Nautanki for giving life to this story!</div>
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In its fourth edition of the '<a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">One Day - One Story</a>' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.
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Toral Mehta conducted 3 storytelling sessions in Hyderabad and sent us the following videos and images of her sessions. </div>
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Date : 6th September</div>
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On 6th September, Toral conducted 2 back to back sessions at the same venue. A skit with a groom, little drummer, ghoda and more! </div>
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Love the drum circle instructions to go with the story '<a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/stories/1091-the-boy-and-the-drum">The Boy and the Drum</a>'.</div>
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Thank you Toral for helping coordinate these sessions and a big shout out to all the Oracle employees who took part to spread the joy of reading.</div>
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In its fourth edition of the '<a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">One Day - One Story</a>' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. </div>
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You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.</div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Nupur Vimal from Oracle sent us the following notes and images of sessions conducted by employees of Oracle India. Multiple storytelling sessions were conducted across Delhi and the NCR region.</div>
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Location : Vidya & Child (NGO), Noida<br />
No. of students: 280<br />
No. of Oracle volunteers: 10<br />
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In association with Pratham Books, this was a learning experience for all and an innovative method of storytelling through role play and acting. We spoke about key takeaways: importance of being happy, sharing and caring, helping others, being obedient children, goal setting, dream building and virtue of patience in life.The kids, volunteers and teachers all had a great time.</div>
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Location : MCD school in East of Kailash, Delhi</div>
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We had another storytelling session today at an MCD school in East of Kailash, Delhi. We addressed nearly 40 children, with special needs and different learning capabilities. They loved the session. This time we used props as well. Thank you for this amazing concept. Our volunteers love this activity and are enthusiastic about inculcating it in our upcoming projects as well.</div>
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From the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PrioritizeHumanity">Prioritize Humanity </a>page : After initial introductions, we conducted a storytelling session on the book: ‘The Boy and the Drum’, through a role play. We followed it up with an extensive storytelling session through mimicry, art & craft, drawing, sketching and other innovative ways, to impart key messages. We also distributed a lot of useful stationery items to them. The children, teachers as well as the volunteers loved the session.</div>
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You can view more pictures from the session <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.837784506336550.1073741850.326200857494920&type=3">here</a>.</div>
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The 3rd session was conducted by an Oracle volunteer with her husband, in Gurgaon, where they enacted the story to around 10 kids.</div>
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Thank you Nupur for helping coordinate these sessions and a big shout out to all the Oracle employees who took part to spread the joy of reading.</div>
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In its fourth edition of the '<a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">One Day - One Story</a>' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. </div>
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You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.</div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Meena R writes about her first experience of being a Pratham Books champion and the session she conducted in Pune.</div>
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Session conducted on : 4th and 5th September</div>
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Number of kids : 7 + 7 = 14</div>
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Number of sessions : 2</div>
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Thank you Meena for spreading the joy of reading!</div>
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In its fourth edition of the '<a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">One Day - One Story</a>' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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Srividya Suryanarayanan writes about the two storytelling sessions she conducted in Chennai.<br />
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Session conducted on : 4th and 5th September</div>
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Number of kids : 38 + 5 = 43</div>
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Language the session was conducted in : English and Tamil; English</div>
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Via <a href="https://vidyasjournal.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/my-numero-uno-prathams-champions-programme-of-2015/">Vidya's blog</a><br />
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I have been linked with Pratham Books from my <a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/03/cook-up-stories-with-retell-remix-and.html">Creative Remixes</a> days. I had used their ‘Creative Common’ images to create an original story. So I was not unfamiliar with the organization but <a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/08/the-pbchamps-programme-is-back.html">Champions Programme</a> was new for me. Pratham has been creating awareness and exposure to this programme through their <a href="https://twitter.com/prathambooks">twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1609717492624242/">facebook</a> social media spaces.</div>
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The organization aims to increase readership among children for the International Literacy day falling on the 8th of September 2015. This year’s programme was flagged off on Teacher’s Day 5th September to bring more children towards reading books. It had special connotation because the teachers bring the world of books and knowledge to a child in their unique ways.</div>
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I got to know about the Champions Programme from my co-worker Anitha Selvanathan. This year’s featured book was “The Boy and the Drum” by Umesh P N and Illustrated by Rajiv Eipe.</div>
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Even though I registered for the drive of getting books to children to inculcate reading habits, I was rather excited and felt a little challenged. I am crazy about books and if I can generate interest among children for reading then the very sharing is a reward by itself.</div>
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I had planned on having a Reading session in my house for my home tuition students. But something kept egging me to seek out a bigger challenge. I wanted to share it among a larger audience since I was equally passionate about sharing a story.</div>
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Quite by accident, actually, I came across the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Government-girls-higher-secondary-school-ashok-nagar/102839559843621?fref=ts">Government Girls Higher Secondary School</a> (GGHSS), Ashok Nagar, Chennai. I approached the Headmistress Mrs. R. C. Saraswathi who felt strongly about encouraging reading habits in children.</div>
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She immediately linked me up with the Drama teacher K. S. Latha who had been a great source of help for smoothing my way for the reading drive. The school was closed for the Teacher’s Day and so we scheduled to have the reading session a day earlier on 4th September at the school.</div>
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On the D-Day, I was conscious of the enormity of my challenge but I was also happy to bring them a story to enjoy reading. The Drama teacher offered to set aside two periods for the reading and enacting session.</div>
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I was able to prep-talk the children on how to read the text without the stage instruction. The Drama teacher added in her spicy instruction to make the play alive. The selected 10 Children read the story first as a practice and then as a finale.</div>
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The children were spirited about the reading session each trying to out-do the other in making the play come alive and giving it their touch of unique interpretation. We had a discussion session after the reading to further understand and gain insights into the story.</div>
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The Children showed such enthusiasm towards being exposed to reading that they felt an annual event would be a long wait for them. They gave me the inspiration to take these sessions to more children and give them the gift of reading and to explore stories with their imagination.</div>
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I enjoy making the children desire befriending a book, because one gains a friend who would remain an inspiration through all seasons of life. The One Day One Story drive was the first step towards a long journey ahead. For there is nothing as rewarding as watching those sparkle in the eyes of the children who have just finished reading a story and have found enjoyment in it.</div>
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Thank you Srividya for spreading the joy of reading!</div>
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In its fourth edition of the '<a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">One Day - One Story</a>' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! </div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. </div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. </div>
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You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.</div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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This story was sent to us by Lavanya Srinivas from <span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Katha Kamamishu.</span></div>
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Session conducted on : 4th September</div>
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Number of kids : 100+</div>
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Number of sessions : 1</div>
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Language the session was conducted in : English, Tamil<br />
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I am extremely happy to share the Photographs of the session I had at The Corporation School, Shastrinagar, Chennai for their Students of Primary Classes.</div>
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It was great fun and the kids enjoyed a lot as I started it as a storytelling session in Tamil and followed it with the reading of 'The Boy and The Drum' in English.</div>
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Thanks for the opportunity to be a PB Champion and spread the joy to one and all.</div>
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Thank you Laavanya for spreading the joy of reading!</div>
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In its fourth edition of the <a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/celebrating-international-literacy-day.html">'One Day - One Story' campaign</a>, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'!</div>
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What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog.</div>
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View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories.</div>
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You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.</div>
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<b>Note : If 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 champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.</b></div>
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