Me and Pratham Books

This is me with Pratham Books again.. Recently I have joined Blogadda, and on the homepage I saw "blog about a NGO." and that very moment I started searching if they are featuring Pratham or Pratham books. After searching few pages I found Pratham books listed there and my smile grew wider.
After working with Teach India, I started working with Pratham. My very first job just after my college. I have learnt so much from this organization. Infact on my very first entry I wrote on Pratham and my learning there.

My first full time interaction with Pratham books was in Jaipur Literature Festival 2011. I handled the Pratham Books stall there. And I was so fascinated by those books. Whenever I was free at the festival I used to start reading the books. I used to gather small children from around and used to read out stories to them. I so wished to read such stories in my childhood.

Now I make sure all kids in my house do read those books. I always gift those books to them on their birthdays instead of chocolates and toys. And I am glad they love it too. I also organized a Pratham books fair at a nearby school.

Activity: Pratham Books was set up in 2004, as part of the Read India movement, a nation- wide campaign to promote reading among children. Pratham Books is a not-for-profit organization that publishes quality books for children in multiple Indian languages. Our mission is to see "a book in every child's hand" and democratize the joy of reading.

In the last 6 years we have published over 200 titles in upto 11 languages and have spread the joy of reading to over 12 million children!

Details: Read about our why we are using Creative Commons here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780

Support: reading, literacy, education, kidlit, children's literature, publishing

Note: We have put a lot of our content under the Creative Commons framework and we have begun to see success with this. Which means that we make our stories and illustrations available under an open license model and the larger community can then repurpose our content to create something completely new and thus contribute to the cause of a book in every child's hand. Our books have been adapted by our community into a range of new creations from audio and Braille books for the print-impaired, to iPad and iPhone applications - all to reach every child in India.

We are hoping that many more people can come forward and help translate/remix/re-purpose/distribute our Creative Commons licensed content.

This post is a part of BlogAdda's Bloggers Social Responsibility (BSR) initiative. I am exercising my BSR. You can too with three simple steps. Visit http://www.blogadda.com/bsr/ and support the NGO's.