E-Base Library: The Joy of Books!
We’re so happy to see all the support pouring in for the campaign; be it a Mumbai student running a book collection drive or mothers sending in their children’s old encyclopedias. Here’s just a quick update on how the project is coming along and well, how our office currently looks! (But, we’re not complaining!)
That is about six big bags full of encyclopedias!
We have also received an extremely positive response from publishers and we’re all set to start placing orders for more books.
E-Base Library: A reality now, and still growing!
We are touched by the overwhelming munificence shown towards the E-Base Library campaign.
Having reached 104% of the target, we feel content on the achievement, but also hopeful towards aggrandizing our impact by raising more funds to replicate the E-base library idea in Pench Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra. Two sides of the same forest, but kilometers apart in different states. We hope that you continue to show us the kind support you have up till now and help us raise another Rs. 70,000 for the children of an even more remote side of Pench, in Maharashtra..
Just to revisit the moment we crossed our target, here is a before and after snapshot of the website:
The excitement on having crossed the target!
E-Base Library: We’re looking good at 58%
We are overwhelmed by the support that has been shown towards our campaign to raise funds for the E-Base library.
E-Base library: We’re 20% closer!
To all our contributors, a big thank you!
Contributions to the library are fast coming in and in just 5 days we have raised 20% of the funds! We’re overwhelmed by the positive and very encouraging response we have received.
Using Stories in a Classroom: Workshop by ‘iDesign Skills’
In April, the E-Base had new students. This time the students weren’t the school children from villages around, but instead, their teachers. An insightful workshop with ‘iDesign Skills’ put into perspective the impact of the teaching skills and tools chosen in a classroom.
Starting off with how to break up a text into different components depending on their function.
Raising funds for the E-Base Library
The E-Base is close to completing three years this year. The E-Base workshops have had a considerable impact on the students in Pench. This year, we have taken a moment to step back and look at some fundamental concerns which we could address through the E-Base and which will ultimately enhance the E-Base experience for children from the villages around Pench.
One E-Base Library, coming up!
Within two days, we will be going live with our campaign to raise funds for an E-Base Library.
Studying at the E-Base.
Animal Tracking with Leaps and Bounds and Gerry Martin
The children become amateur naturalists this weekend spent exploring their forests. There are often flora and fauna that the students overlook in their day to day life as neighbours of the forest and this workshop helped point out all of those.
The students all lined up and ready to go into the forest to look for animal tracks and other signs.
The Organic Diaries- Step 13: Pack Up Time!
We may have been off to a slow start because of the, may we say, ‘belligerent’ weather (For those who didn’t follow the diaries, yes, the weather was actually dead against us), but we were successful in the end. A section of our summer plants fared very well and our winter plants made us proud.
However, our real pride was the students of Turia Middle School. They showed responsibility and organisation one often doesn’t see in middle school students. We looked at the organic gardening project as a way to instill not only knowledge of organic cultivation but also of cooperation, team work and patience for mutual benefits.
To bid goodbye until we return with our diaries in the next academic year, we’d like to revisit some memories of our enjoyable yet very educational experience. Here are some of the photos that capture the pith of our organic experience.
Our initial July setback.
The Organic Diaries- Step 12: Reaping the benefits of the cold
After a busy month, we’re back to share some good news-
The methi, spinach and coriander have fared brilliantly! The spinach has already been picked for use once and is still going strong.
The palak patch on it’s second round.
