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Adaiyaalam Arumbugal Reading Movement will organise month-long programme for children Those who wish to donate books can write to adaiyaalam.cbe@gmail.com or call 9842351324 COIMBATORE: Hundreds of children from the rural pockets of Coimbatore are to rediscover the joys of reading. A mobile book exhibition will make its way through 10 villages in and around the city from April 28 to May 23. Adaiyaalam Arumbugal Reading Movement will organise this month-long programme for the children of the villages in connection with World Book Day observed on April 23. It will not be just a book exhibition, but will include reading contests, poetry recitals and story telling. The children can also perform the skits directed by them. Writers will review their works too. The movement, started in 2006, covers about 41 Dalit hamlets in Perianaickenpalayam and has about 700 children in the age group of 9 to 15 actively involved in reading, writing and giving life to the art of story-telling. Books are circulated among these children who read them and discuss them. “We need to create awareness among the children and their parents on the importance of the reading habit and inspire them to cultivate the habit of reading,” says V.Dhandapani, Managing Trustee of Adaiyaalam. Most of these children are miles away from urbanisation and the only way to improve their general awareness and bring them into the mainstream is to get them to read books and periodicals, Mr.Dhandapani asserts. Hailing from poor families, their parents do not understand the importance of reading anything apart from their textbooks. “We want to involve more children in this reading movement. By the end of this year, at least 1,000 children will be part of the movement,” Mr.Dhandapani says. The group also plans to host a Children’s Conference in July at Periyanaickenpalayam and a workshop in May for training an editorial team for bringing out a children’s magazine, ‘Thumbi.’ A Resource Centre with story books, reference books, and magazines is also on the anvil. The group receives no funds from the Government and has few sponsors, except Aid India, a Chennai-based organisation, that donates books regularly. Those who wish to donate books to the reading movement can write to adaiyaalam.cbe@gmail.com or call 9842351324.
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