ITANAGAR, Jul 20:  As a part of Community Initiative Programme, the RIWATCH organized “Joy of Reading” workshops in association with Lohit Youth Library Network to promote good reading habits among the school going children of different schools in and around Roing, Lower Dibang Valley.

The Coordinator Satyanarayanan, Mundayoor stressed upon the teachers to adopt play way method of teaching, story-telling and use low cost teaching aids to make learning more joyful and enjoyable. The workshop session included story-telling, story-reading and poetry recitation from Mary Ann Hobberman’s “You read to me, I’ll read to you”. The children found the poetry quite interactive and stimulating.

Around 200 children of Govt. Middle School and Future Generation School from Abali and Hornbill School and Anakum Academy from Roing benefited from the programme.

At the initiative of RIWATCH, a “Chinzigoma Library” has been started at Abali village. About 30 readers, including school dropouts, visiting the library every day is quite encouraging. A young reader, Sujata sitting in Chinzigoma Library remarked to her friends “what wonderful books, very interesting, very interesting !”

The RIWATCH proposes to extend the reading campaign to other schools in Dibang Valley region during the year.