Our first Story Fest started in Chennai Kamaraj Avenue Corporation School. A really enthusiastic school and staff made Story Fest a reality. We are working year on year to improve the experience of Story Fests both to Children, the Sponsors, the Payanmaram Team and the Education Department.  It has helped promote not only reading but has also been key to explore different forms expression among children.

Thanks to Radioactive Radio and Chidline teams for planting the seed to this initiative. For long now we have enjoyed this simple exercise with children and have retained it year on year in the objects of our Trust as we see it as a proven way to promoting reading among children as well as enabling expression without them even realizing it!  

Reading Rooms and libraries are according to us a basic essential for a civilized society. And hence our endeavour to bring such projects in our work areas and communities.

We connect with needy students in the low income families and grant them a few academic books on long lending where students can hold on to books they borrow for a longer lending time – until end of their exams, throughout the semester. We thank Companies and Individuals for sponsoring us in this initiative.