It was time to do something different. It was theatre time at Disha Foundation. Rahul Dey, one of the volunteers at PeaceWorks had planned to do a play with these children based on ‘ The King and the Little Man’ by K. G Subramanyan. The children showed a lot of excitement to do the play…
Why do we write? Stories, poems or plays? Rohan Haldar, a student at Kailash Vidyamandir once told me that he writes so that children will start taking an interest in the world of literature. This coming from a boy who studies in middle school. And that in the world of stories there is happiness to…
I was very nervous about my first day at Hamari Muskaan but as I entered the room I heard a loud ‘Gooood Morningg Diidii’. These children come every Saturday to St Joseph’s school accompanied by their mothers to listen to Divya and Shelly, two volunteers in the Share Stories Open Minds program, tell stories. Today…
‘We don’t know Harry Potter’, was the first reaction I got from the girls at the Child Care Centre in Chingrighata (North Kolkata), when first asked about their views on the boy wizard. This would not do, this would not do at all. So how to introduce these little fertile minds to the world of…
On 28th of July 2015, PeaceWorks hosted two storytellers from Ever After, Bangalore—Deeptha Vivekanand and Nisha Abdulla. Deeptha and Nisha conducted a story-telling workshop with the volunteers of the Peaceworks “Share Stories Open Minds” Project; the main purpose of the workshop being the exploration of new techniques to reiterate old stories. At the onset of…
