People

Let's break a Wall.

Let's break a Wall. Sometime in 2014, we started a little experiment.

We walked up to a room full of children in the City of Joy. The only furniture was a wall. The only wood, a one-inch pencil stub. We met Saina, an eight year old, and asked her what does she want to be when she grows up.

Saina said -- I want to fly.
This is her story. It soon became our story too.

We gathered Saina and her friends and helped them build a hypercool library using just a wall. That’s how we got our name! It stuck. We equipped it with a startup grant of 100 books (and a world map, a light bulb and a few more things) and elected a little leader to run it.

For the kids, their world turned upside down. For most of them, this was their first story book.

We built the second.
The third. A hundred. Another hundred!

We didn't stop. And then it struck us. Like a thunderbolt. What if we could connect two kids using just a postcard?

We did exactly that.
We connected kids in Darjeeling who wanted to swim in the biggest ocean in the world to kids in Mauritius who had never seen a mountain.

Things moved fast. We wondered, what if they could make their own storybooks and share them with each other? We gave them a blank sheet of paper.

Magic happened.

This set us thinking.
What if we invite people from around the world, ordinary people like you and us to make storybooks for the children we serve?

We went out on a limb.
Hundreds of writers turned up for our children. Today we work with people from around the world making storybooks that need just a single sheet of paper, that anybody can write, and every child can read.

We help build classrooms that need only a wall, where parents & teachers are finally proud of what their children learn.

This is the story, Saina started.
Now it is your turn to discover what you can do together with us.

We work in the City of Joy.

We work in the City of Joy. The WALLOBOOKS Project is a tiny, global Not-for-Profit. We are a small team supported by an equally passionate Board of Believers and a cohort of remarkable individuals around the world who constitute our Ambassadors of Hope.

Founders
Swastika Gurung, Sanjukt Saha

Team
Swastika Gurung, Sanjukt Saha, Dhiman Ghosh, Ganesh Raptan, Krishna Acharya, Sriparna Chowdhury, Debanjana Bonnerjee, Neetu Agarwal, Sameer Khan, Devanjali Roy, Abhishek Mitra, Kelly Beker, Amy Marley, Udayan Guha, Philippose Rajan, Sona Ram, Debpriya Adhikary

Alumni
Arijit Chanda, Aparajeeta Pradhan, Bijeta Mohanty, Dipak Kansal, Gaurav Francis, Lumena Mukherjee, Nehal Raj Pradhan, Nima Dolma, Nipuna Sen, Oyi Taki, Priyanka Lama, Ravi Rakesh, Ruma Banerjee, Sameer Sherpa, Satish Gurung, Satyaki Dey, Sayanti Mitra, Srishti Shaikh, Sudhanshu Singh, Swati Moitra, Uttam Kumar, Vijit Sunder

Join a simple movement for hope.
Mail our Founders and make us a part of your journey. The WALLOBOOKS Project adheres to an unrelenting pursuit of transparency and ethics. In my role as the Chief Ethics Officer, I strive to implement an uncompromising stance in these two areas.

Mail me to alert us about any violation of standards or to help us become a better organisation. Sriparna Chowdhury
Chief Ethics Officer

Board of Believers

Board of Believers Founded in 2014, we have come a long way.

We are eternally in gratitude to an extraordinary bunch of individuals who believe in our work and the change we wish to achieve.

Abhijit Bhattacharya, Abhishek Ranjan, Bharat Sharma, Bholanath Banerjee, Bhuvnesh Singh, Deepak Kumar, Deepinder Singh, Dr. Debanu Das, Dibya Raj Mukhia, Dr. Ashok Ghosh, Dr. Balkumar Marthi, Evgeny Tkachenko, Gaurav Kumar, Harsh Jha, Ken Pope, Kislaya Gautam, Mala Dasgupta, Manish Garg, Manish Mehrotra, Marcelo Savignano, Mitika Kulshreshtha, Naresh Kumar Bothra, Neelkanth Mishra, Nikhil Bajpai, Pankaj Singh, Paras Garg, Paritosh Kumar, Pawas Krishna Agarwal, Poulomi Pal, Prakrit Silal, Prashasta Seth, Pravesh Dudani, Rakesh Mishra, Rajan Philippose, Dr. Rajarshi Singh, Ranvijay Kumar, Rishi Kohli, Rituparna Choudhury, Salil K. Sahu, Salman Samson Rogers, Samarpit Bhatia, Samiran Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar, Sanghamitra Chakravarty, Sanjay Ojha, Sanjay Purohit, Satish Kumar Srivastava, Sharad Kumar, Sharik Javali, Shekhar Varshney, Shirish Kher, Shobu Yarlagadda, Sona Ram, Sonu Agrawal, Subrangshu Das, Sunish Issac, Vikram Kumar, Vishal Agarwalla, Vivek Agarwal

Let our dreams collide.
If you are passionate about innovation and education, schedule a call with us. As an Independent Member of the Board, I help to set the standards for financial and ethical oversight when not called upon to guide a fantastic team on electronics and innovation.

Mail me to get an independent perspective, and join me to support this work on Patreon. Philippose Rajan
Board of Believers

Ambassadors of Hope

Ambassadors of Hope Remarkable individuals who believe and participate in our mission to break the walls that surround children around the world.

Albania Lorida Cito
Australia Amy Marley, Eliza Arnold, Kylie Harris
Bangladesh Suntonu Bhadra
Barbados Sharon Hurley Hall
Brazil Maria Luiza Ferreira de Rezende
Canada Dascha Paylor, Kelly Beker
France Jean Carfantan
Germany Stefano Paggi
Greece Vicky Prokopi
Hungary Andrea Demeny
India Abhay Salvi, Abhishek Mitra, Angel Joy, Anu Anniah, Chirag, Furmu Sherpa, Gaurav Beniwal, Shilpa Gupte, Shreyas Narain, Vinshu Jain
Indonesia Andriani Carolina, Febby Okta
Ireland Sylvia Wohlfarth
Italy Raffaella Ferretti
Malaysia Isabela Vasiliu
Morocco Sara Taki
Netherlands Arjan Tupan
Nigeria Abayomi Omoogun, Temitope Christopher Samuel
Pakistan Taha Abbas
Philippines Drizia Bolanos
Portugal William Offen
Republic of Ghana Sarah Dodoo
Romania Deliana Trasca
Singapore David Wang, Ryan Joshua Mahindapala, Tan SiHui
South Africa Anja Venter, Jesse Breytenbach, Lelanie Boulle, Michael Rands, Theodore Key
Trinidad Ria Vanessa Caliste
United Kingdom Andy Stonehouse, Carol Liddiment, Michael Hughes, Rebecca Owen, Roxanna Azimy, Victoria Stonehouse
United States Alicia Wilcox, Ann Frailey, Ayushi Sinha, Breanna Lowman, Cheryl Amy Hollander, Elizabeth Belt, Farah Aria, Holly Jahangiri, Jed Graham, Jenine Baines, Jody Wheeler, John Greene, Lisa Giles · Marc Oakley, Margie Peterson, Martin D. Hirsch, Marty Jones, Melissa R. Mendelson, Nalini MacNab, Nicholas Johnson, Nicole Dyer, Paroma Sen, Patrick McLane, Paul Mullinger, Ryan Bird, Sierra Dougherty, Stephen Curtiss Rose, Theresa Evans, Tre King, Vicki Smith, Zachary Watson

We cannot do this alone.
Join us to break the walls that surround our children. I feel strongly for education, and opportunity for all.

I hope every child can grow up in a world where they can have enough conviction to be themselves, and strive for their goals.

Bob Van Starr
Ambassador of Hope | Maine

Partners

Partners We partner intensively with Teachers, Governments and pioneering Not for Profits to build a better world for children in adversity.


We are re:imagining Paper + Technology in education
Co-create a path-breaking classroom for children in adversity. The WALLOBOOKS Project partners with pioneering Not for Profits and governmental agencies on its mission to give every child access to a hypercool $1 Classroom.

If you work with children and communities in adversity in any part of the world, write to me to discuss how we can help you create path-breaking change in their lives. Kelly Beker
Global Social Impact Director