Thursday 27 February 2014
Save the Children launched a Mobile Library Bus Service in Bhutan on 26th December 2013. The event was graced by the City Mayor. The Mobile Library Bus Service is a Save the Children project in collaboration with the Thimphu Thromde Office.
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The Bhutan Children’s Book Initiative, a collaborative project of Ministry of Education and Save the Children, has published additional 11 new children’s books in the English and Dzongkha by local authors and illustrators. The books are being provided to all the primary schools in Thimphu and Zhemgang, the two pilot districts for the project.
The Department of Curriculum Research & Development (DCRD), Ministry of Education and Save the Children trained 20 teachers from Thimphu and Zhemgang as Trainers on Reading Skills and Strategies & Book Management under the Bhutan Children’s Book Initiative Project. The 5-day workshop began on 26th January and it was facilitated by Senior Education Advisor of Save the Children Joseph Nhan- O’Reilly.
The Baseline data collection for Bhutan Children’s Book Initiative was successfully completed this week with data collected from four districts – two intervention districts (Thimphu & Zhemgang) and two control districts (Paro & Dagana). The data collection was carried out simultaneously in all four districts by four different teams a total of 16 enumerators (8 Boys and 8 Girls) who underwen