We got an opportunity to work with food4thoughtfoundationas as a volunteer during our summer break. On 20th May 2019, third day of our internship we got a chance to visit the Gram Panchayat at Rudraram in Sangareddy district, Telangana

The students and staff at ZPHS were very welcoming when we went there. They all were very excited and were eagerly waiting for the Joy of Reading program to comments. Food4thought foundation has been associated with the school for a while and soon they are going to open a library there. They have been doing great work to encourage students to read beyond their academic books.

#IAMBOND has been very successful in inculcating the habit of reading in children and community member’s also. The foundation aims at building an enlightened nation by universalising access to books and creating joy of reading.

We were very excited to see the energy and the enthusiasm among the students and the staff members regarding the Joy of Reading programme. Students were given the option to choose between Telugu and English books and were asked to write the summary and draw a character from the book they have chosen. We organised an interactive game session with the students and everyone enjoyed it.

Further on other side Quiz program was organised for Community Members and very interestingly people came down and participated in the event. It was a learning experience to all of us to see an event is organised not only for Community students but also for village members and objective was to motivate them to build the habit of joy of reading.

The students who wrote the best summaries were given gifts which were sponsored by Green Gold Animation and the community members who won the quiz show were given individual gifts by Sarpanch sponsored by Signode India

We were very happy with response given by the students and the staff about Joy of Reading program. We would love to go back to such communities and share the Joy with more and more students and members.

It was great experience visiting the Gram Panchayat and to meet the students and the villagers and witness their enthusiasm towards the program. Thanks to Sarpanch who came forward to conduct this program with Food4thought foundation .A special thanks to Signode India for coming forward and supporting the organisation for building the reading habits in rural villages.

In the last as an icing on a cake our efforts were published in Namaste Telangana, Sangareddy Newspaper dt. 21st May 2019

Nandita C.R –Intern studying at P.OBUL Reddy Public School, Hyderabad and Niharika Patibandla-Intern studying at Fitzee World School , Ameerpet, Hyderabad