Pratham Books Champion : IDF CCCC Bal Gurukul

Sanjay Ram sent us the following note and pictures from the storytelling session held at Charumathi Child Care Centre, Nalgonda. The storytelling session was coordinated by Indian Development Foundation. Indian Development Foundation is a national NGO working for health, education and development.

Th campaign was done in IDF CCCC Bal gurukul , Nalgonda on 12th Sept.

In this facility most of the children are orphans or semi orphans and all are HIV Positive.

Children enjoyed the sessions and wanted to hear more stories.

Pratham Books Champion : IDF CSS NAM Bal Gurukul

These pictures was sent to us by CSS NAM Bal Gurukul. The storytelling session was coordinated by Indian Development Foundation. Indian Development Foundation is a national NGO working for health, education and development.

Mrs.Vemuri Vijaya Lakshmi sent photos of the story telling sessions at Centre for Social Service Nimmagadda Anandamma Memorial Girls School (CSSNAM Girls School).

Thank you for spreading the joy of reading!

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This International Literacy Day, Pratham Books has taken a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. Last year Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day and we conducted over 250 storytelling sessions. This year we are delighted that over a 1000 sessions are happening across the length and breadth of the country.We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

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 : ASBP Bal gurukul

These pictures were sent to us from the ASBP Bal gurukul, Hyderabad. The storytelling session was coordinated by Indian Development Foundation. Indian Development Foundation is a national NGO working for health, education and development

The storytelling session was conducted on 11th Sept 2013.
All children from 3th to 8th classes were impacted - 250 children
Langauge was Telugu.

Thank you ASBP Bal gurukul and Indian Development Foundation for spreading the joy of reading!

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This International Literacy Day, Pratham Books has taken a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. Last year Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day and we conducted over 250 storytelling sessions. This year we are delighted that over a 1000 sessions are happening across the length and breadth of the country.We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

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 Champions : AIM For Seva

AIM For Seva sent us the following pictures of the storytelling session conducted by them. The storytelling session was coordinated by Indian Development Foundation. Indian Development Foundation is a national NGO working for health, education and development

Thank you AIM For Seva and Indian Development Foundation for spreading the joy of reading!

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This International Literacy Day, Pratham Books has taken a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. Last year Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day and we conducted over 250 storytelling sessions. This year we are delighted that over a 1000 sessions are happening across the length and breadth of the country.We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

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 : IDF Kasturba Gandhi Bal Gurkul

These pictures was sent to us by Kasturba Gandhu Bal Gurukul. The storytelling session was coordinated by Indian Development Foundation. Indian Development Foundation is a national NGO working for health, education and development

1 storytelling session conducted on 7th September, 2013

Three books were used during the storytelling session, including Paplu, the Giant.

Thank you IDF Kasturba Gandhi Bal Gurkul for spreading the joy of reading!

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This International Literacy Day, Pratham Books has taken a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. Last year Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day and we conducted over 250 storytelling sessions. This year we are delighted that over a 1000 sessions are happening across the length and breadth of the country.We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

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 : Indira Penubolu

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 Indira Penubolu.

Thank you Indira 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 : Sushim Shrivastava, Aishwarya, Deepti, Vishwanath and Shivasish

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.

Sushim Srivastava sent us the following story. Sushim works for wireless semiconductor major Qualcomm. In his free time he volunteers against child labor and child abuse. He has been associated with these causes for more than 12 years.

Session 1: Indu Fortune Fields Gardenia Apartments

The session started at 10:00AM. We started with English book the session was very interactive and it went for roughly 25 minutes. Then it was followed by Telugu session. When Telugu Session started, author of the book Sridala Swami joined us. After Telugu session. We gave kids lot of calts to draw kolams/muggus. Kida had a blast.

Session 2: Chord Ashirwad Child labor rehab bridge school.

The session started at 12:00PM, kids were not as forthcoming as first session because of psychological trauma they went through. Vishwanath and I did the session interleaved in English and Telugu. Kids slowly opened up. Kids who could read we gave them a chance to read the book. They felicitated the author. Then kids drew muggu/kolam at the end.

At both the sessions we distributed unlimited number of chocolates.

Thank you Sushim, Aishwarya, Deepti, Vishwanath and Shivasish 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.