By Sanya | Creative Content Lead
Luna is naughty. She doesn’t care much for fancy clips that hold her hair together, she’d rather let them run wild with her as she solves some of the biggest problems the world faces. Luna’s sky is every colour you have seen and some colours that are only visible to her. Her world is a world of imagination and possibilities. She doesn’t give up. She doesn’t give in. She’s strong. She’s fierce. She’s full of love and kindness. She looks for all things new, and questions the old.
Luna traveled to 16 districts of Bihar all through July and August, and we were thrilled to see so much love for her! The Luna series is going into 261 schools and into the hands of thousands of girls in Grade 7. But none of this would be possible without the support of the 261 principles and 500+ teachers who spent their days with us, getting to know Luna and everything she stands for.
Just like Luna, the trainings held for the teachers were different too. Aptly called ‘I Am Luna’, it gave teachers a chance to explore the adventurers hidden in their hearts and to see everything from a new perspective. They painted using flowers and grass and tea leaves, lit bulbs using potatoes, and sowed seeds to grow organic gardens! By the end of the second day, teachers couldn’t wait to take Luna into their classrooms.
Shweta, a teacher from KGBV Bhojpur, said, “Luna thinks differently. She’s so different from everyone else! If all the girls in KGBVs, or anywhere else, start thinking like this, the world will become an entirely new place.” While everyone loved Luna’s fierce spirit, they also saw value in the lessons the stories were teaching; talking about Luna's Garden (one of the books in the series), Raka Rani, a headmistress, said “We need kids who like gardens, and plants, and trees. Let them make a garden, fail at it or make it; but the most important thing is that they try it.”
We’re excited about Luna meeting thousands of young girls just like her!
Watch the Luna movies here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1ue9VzrTsigsmKJOkM7Y_ET9Ymkmafm0
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