April 15h, 2004

Part of Project Honor – UQE India 2047 Initiative

Project LibrarySlide Show

Anjana Badrinarayanan, Asha Sanjay, Radhika Menon, Jeba Durai, Sathya Priya, Dhanalakshmi, Akhil Nigam, Srinivas Adavikonalu, Chandrika Nimmagadda, Shyam Raghunandan, D P Prakash

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Project Library | nlogue – Tulika – Asha for Education | April 15, 2004

Village #3 – Vidaiyur, Tamilnadu Vidaiyur village nlogue kiosk library site visit, Jan 14, 2004

Dhanalakshmi

Anjana

Let’s talk

Very smart kidStrong silent type

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SathyapriyaIt is time to test their knowledge

Let us give them a quiz

Vidaiyur village nlogue kiosk library site visit

Kiosk Operator Anandi

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A rising starRecites verbatim

Maya Pathiram story

Asha SanjayAsha supported Library

Kiosk operator’s feet

Kiosk operator’s cycle

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Vidaiyur village nlogue kiosk library site visit

Reciting the stories they learnt from the library books

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Project Library | nlogue – Tulika – Asha for Education | April 15, 2004

Vidaiyur village nlogue kiosk library site visit

Videoconferencing with neighbouring village 15 KMS awayRural India is on the move

Neighbouring village kid

Videocam

Kid Speaking into Mike and going online real-time

Vidaiyur kid

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Project Library | nlogue – Tulika – Asha for Education | April 15, 2004

Vidaiyur village nlogue kiosk library site visit

Waving goodbye, after giving us a full sugarcane as a gift (it was the day before Pongal, the harvest festival)

These kids are so full of life, energy and hope

The village Panchayat officeGiven to the kiosk operator by the people

To take the village forward

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Quotes

“On the whole, it was wonderful to see small kids smiling and reading a book.The triumph is made not when a kid reads a book but when he actually picksit up on his own. This is the first step towards encouraging them to read.It was even more wonderful for me to see girls coming and reading books”Anjana Badrinarayanan

“ having Anjana as the Asha steward for this project is the best thing which has happened. Her perspectives are fresh and valuable. She sat and integrated with the children ..talked to them...all very quietly and with minimum fuss.Truly lucky to have her with us ”Asha Sanjay, n-logue Inc

"I am now totally convinced that we will not only reach all villages, but this doubling of per-capita Rural GDP is very much a achievable target in next 10 years. We will like to go ahead in driving this vision. I am sure Asha will be great partner“Padmashri Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT, Madras