Pratham Books Champions : Supriya Dadoo

Supriya Dadoo conducted a storytelling session in Singapore and wrote to us about it.

The children were very excited and they understood well how Pratham Books was trying to conduct story-telling sessions all across India celebrating 'International Literacy Day'. They even remembered last year's story. This year too, I got a very enthusiastic response. I feel that children love to hear stories and it is an extremely good and subtle way to impart values, while they enjoy the story and think & rethink about it. The values get imprinted in their minds. While I was narrating the story, they were quite inquisitive and had some very valid questions which were answered well in the later pages of the story itself. They loved the illustrations on the book. 

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and plan to take fortnightly story-telling sessions here.

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On International Literacy Day (2013), Pratham Books took 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. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day and we conducted over 250 storytelling sessions. In 2013, over a 1000 sessions took place 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 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.

Pratham Books Champions : v-shesh

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.

Shashaank from v-shesh sent us the following story.

As part of 1 day 1 story campaign - Pratham Books Champions at v-shesh conducted 8 story telling sessions of which 7 were for children with disabilities. An 8th session was held in Singapore for 15 children from Indian families. 4 of these sessions were in Sign language, 3 in English and 1 in Tamil.

Sessions for children with disabilities were held in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Indore and Mumbai. These sessions were held at 7 different organisations and a total of 251 participants of which 142 were deaf, 19 were blind and balance with CP, MR et al.

These sessions were thoroughly enjoyed by the students and our team members and there is already talk in the air about when the next session would be held!

Details of sessions
City/ Location/ Champion/ Participants/ Language

1.Bhopal/ Asha Niketan/ Prashant / 16 deaf students / Sign language
2.Bhubaneswar/ BBC School for deaf/ Laxmidhar / 70 deaf students/ Sign language
3. Chennai / St Louis School/ Alafia / 19 blind students/ English
4. Chennai /V-Excel/ Smriti /69 CP & mild MR students/ English
5. Coimbatore/ Ashirwad/ Susmitha /21 MR students /Tamil
6. Indore/ Mukhabadhir Sangh/ Daya / 13 deaf students /Sign language
7. Mumbai / Sanskardham/ Raheel / 43 deaf students /Sign language
8. Singapore / Pebble Bay/ Supriya / 15 non PwD students /English

Thank you Shashaank, Prashant, Laxmidhar, Alafia, Smriti, Susmitha, Daya, Raheel, Supriya and the team at v-shesh 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.