Melissa Pritchard: Work in India


	Kalam Melissa Pritchard's work in India	As Director of Creative Partnerships for the Daywalka Foundation, Melissa Pritchard works closely with its creative writing initiative, Kalam: Margins Write.
	From Kalam's website: Kalam: Margins Write is a rights-based writing program building critical and creative voices among marginalized youth in urban India. Kalam (ka-lum) noun [Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Nepali, Farsi, Arabic] 1. an instrument to write with, 2. a pen or pencil. It empowers youth to discover themselves as creative writers and cultural thinkers, and promotes critical consciousness and engaged imaginations among the margins. It is a movement for young people to claim their right over their lives by rewriting their selves, their communities, and their worlds according to themselves. Kalam works with young people living along different social margins of Calcutta including slum areas, redlight areas, railway platforms and shelter homes. More on Kalam: an article from The India Express"KolkataNewline" 18 January 2007 [PDF] Kalam's blog: http://marginswrite.wordpress.com	Above (January 2007): Melissa Pritchard poses with children from STOP (Stop Trafficking and Oppression of Children and Women) in Dehli, India. Also appearing in the picture is Roma Debrabrata, President of STOP.

	* Click here to read MP's Report from her visit to the STOP house [MS Word] * Click here to read an article from India's The Telegraph newspaper 25 January 2007 [online]

	More pictures from MP's January 2007 trip to India with Arizona State University Creative Writing Students
	Above: ASU Creative Writing students Max Doty and Aimee Baker	Above: a writing circle at STOP in Dehli

	Above: a member of STOP serves tea	Above: MP and Aimee Baker give a talk at the Oxford Bookstore in Dehli

	Above: MP and ASU Creative Writing Student Michael Green lead a discussion at the Oxford Bookstore in Dehli	Above: MP poses in front of a temple in Dehli







	updated: February 15, 2007