By Lisa Heydlauff | Director
In 2014, Going to School added a new chapter to the program- Going to School in Jharkhand.
Teachers loved the books and incorporated into their school routine immediately. Children were excited about each story, each game and most importantly, they were up for any skills challenge!
Girls read the story about Aditi who trains for a marathon and makes a plan to eat well, sleep well and be well. Strangely (because it is a story) as Aditi runs through the forest every morning, she meets amazing people who always seem to have good advice for staying healthy. After they read the story, then the skills challenge begins! We challenge children to make a plan for five days of what they eat, when they rest and what they do to be healthy. Once they’ve drawn their plan, we ask kids to interview a person where they live, who they think is the healthiest person they know.
While children are getting ready to read new stories that we’ve designed for them for this year, we are having a fabulous time looking at girls’ skills challenge projects from rural Jharkhand. Young girls & boys from many school across Jharkhand have completed their skills challenges and have submitted us super skills projects.
This year, Going to School is creating five new, magical design-driven story book for children. The stories are inspired from real life hero entrepreneurs, inspirational women drivers, entrepreneurs who identify and solve problems for everyone in their communities. Stories are the new tools to learn, and children are the most excited to complete the skills challenges. We are having a great time designing super stories and we can't wait to share them with everyone. Meanwhile, our all-paper-story-company released an APP. It's called SKOOL. Here you can download every one of our stories you ever wanted to.
Read us online at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goingtoschool.books
While we give the last touches to our brand new stories, take a look at the amazing projects children have made this year & a sneak peek to our new story books.
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