Dear Supporter,

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh! 

Thank You, for your support this week to our projects on the Dasvandh Network.

Today is the last day of the #Dasvandhweek and DVN will contribute $50 for each new donor we bring to our cause; $100 if they start a recurring donation for as little as $10/mo.

So may I kindly request that you encourage a friend or a family member who has not donated to our cause before to contribute?

Since 2018, with this support, we have reached thousands of youth through our books in Punjab - either via subsidizing them heavily or giving them free of cost to libraries, schools and even at the Farmers Protest Morcha. If you are following up on our updates and Social Media pages - you probably know by now what a difference they are making.

Please encourage giving - any amount helps. But please do it NOW - so DVN can match the funds. Please don't delay as every match makes a big difference. 

https://www.dvnetwork.org/folktales

Thank you so much for all you have done this far. 

Guru Ang Sang,

Gurmeet Kaur
@Team PiPPAL

PS: If you would like to learn more about our other project - The Valiant Jaswant Singh Khalra book's Punjab distribution please click here: 

www.dvnetwork.org/valiant 

Dear Supporter,

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh! 

Overwhelmed by the pressure of learning Hindi and English, being put to shame for excelling in their own Mother-language -- these books have been a respite for thousands of children in Punjab -- re-igniting the love for the language and instilling a sense of pride in them and the credit goes to you. (And they teach them good English too as they are bilingual.)

Thank You, for your support in the past to our projects on the Dasvandh Network. We hope that you have been in touch via DVN updates or through our Social Media pages on what we have accomplished with your support thus far. 

In short, we have reached thousands of youth through our books in Punjab - either via subsidizing them heavily or giving them free of cost to libraries, schools and even at the Farmers Protest Morcha. We have shared pictures and testimonials from all age groups, all genders and educational backgrounds - our books have been so educational and life changing, you should be proud of this support.

Now that Covid restrictions are easing up - we plan to amplify our outreach with your help, ofcourse and expand the project to include other #FolktalesofPunjab books.

This week, DVN will be matching your one-time donations while matching funds last upto $400 per donation per person. 

Please consider giving - any amount helps. But please do it NOW - so DVN can match the funds. Please don't delay as every match makes a big difference. If you would like to give more, please consider asking your family member to do so. 

https://www.dvnetwork.org/folktales

May we also ask you to please take a few minutes after you have donated to reach out to at least five more friends and request them to make a contribution? 

This is the only week that we do our fundraising but it sustains us through the whole year because we have zero overhead expenses. All your donations go into creating these wonderful books and making them reach the masses. 

Thank you so much for your dasvandh. We know that you have a choice of many causes. But your strong belief in our educational endeavor to empower our Panth and Punjab, makes us want to continue our mission with more strength. May Waheguru bless you with Chardi Kala. 

Guru Ang Sang,

Gurmeet Kaur
@Team PiPPAL

PS: If you would like to learn more about our other project - The Valiant Jaswant Singh Khalra book's Punjab distribution please click here: 

www.dvnetwork.org/valiant 

www.pippal.org
www.folktalesofpunjab.com

www.facebook.com/ FolktalesOfPunjab/
www.facebook.com/pippalorg/

Dear Supporter,
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa,Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Thank You for your support to the Fascinating Folktales of Punjab. Have you heard about our new and exciting book on the life and times of Jaswant Singh Khalra that teaches children about the history of 20th century Punjab in an inspiring way? 

Please click here to watch the book trailer and learn more about how we want to take this book to every child in Punjab.

https://www.dvnetwork.org/projects/the-valiant---jaswant-singh-khalra-punjab-distribution

From NOW (Nov. 13 2020 12:00 EST) until the funds run out into The Dasvandh Week, your donations to our project will be matched (see details below).

Upto $250 per person will be matched by DVN until their matching funds run out and the code DVWEEK20 is entered. 

Please remember:
Matching Code, DVWEEK20, during the checkout process must be entered at checkout to receive matching fundsSingle donor matching limit is $250.

If you want to donate more, please split the donation with your family members or friends. Please ask your friends or family members to do the same. Any amount is appreciated. 

Thank You,

Gurmeet Kaur
Team Pippal
www.pippal.org

https://www.dvnetwork.org/projects/the-valiant---jaswant-singh-khalra-punjab-distribution

Dear Supporter,

Since we launched our Audio Stories for Children, we have had thousands of hours of listening and hundreds of direct downloads from parents around the world. Finally our children have beautiful audio stories in their Ma-Boli Punjabi to listen to -- Stories, that get their imagination going, while teaching them important language skills and good values in an entertaining and engaging way.
 

The audio versions are absolutely free for everyone to listen, download, or share. Have you shared them with your families and friends yet?
 

Listen to them Online Or Download for Offline listening:

http://www.folktalesofpunjab.com/audio/

ਹੁਣ ਆਡੀਓ ਵਿਚ - ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਸੋਹਣੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੀਆਂ ਮੋਹਣੀਆਂ ਬਾਤਾਂ ਕਲਪਨਾ ਦੇ ਉਸ ਦੇਸ ਵੱਲ ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਜਾਣਗੀਆਂ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਮਾਣਸ, ਜੀਅ-ਜੰਤ, ਪੰਛੀ-ਜਨੌਰ, ਵਣ-ਤ੍ਰਿਣ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਚ ਪਿਆਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਬਾਤਾਂ ਪਾਉੰਦੇ ਵਿਸਮਦੇ ਨੇ।
ਸੁਣੋ, ਸਾਂਝੀਆਂ ਕਰੋ ਤੇ ਡਾਊਨਲੋਡ ਕਰੋ!
 

Enjoy!
Gurmeet Kaur
Author, Fascinating Folktales of Punjab

www.folktalesofpunjab.com

ਹੁਣ ਆਡੀਓ ਵਿਚ - ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਸੋਹਣੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੀਆਂ ਮੋਹਣੀਆਂ ਬਾਤਾਂ ਕਲਪਨਾ ਦੇ ਉਸ ਦੇਸ ਵੱਲ ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਜਾਣਗੀਆਂ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਮਾਣਸ, ਜੀਅ-ਜੰਤ, ਪੰਛੀ-ਜਨੌਰ, ਵਣ-ਤ੍ਰਿਣ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਚ ਪਿਆਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਬਾਤਾਂ ਪਾਉੰਦੇ ਵਿਸਮਦੇ ਨੇ।
ਸੁਣੋ, ਸਾਂਝੀਆਂ ਕਰੋ ਤੇ ਡਾਊਨਲੋਡ ਕਰੋ!
 
Dear Supporter,
How often has this happened?  Your children are in a long car ride or getting ready to go to bed and you wished that they had beautiful audio stories in their Ma-Boli Punjabi to listen to -- Stories, that get their imagination going, while teaching your children important language skills and good values in an entertaining and engaging way.
 
Your wish has come true.

For the last two years, My team and I have been working hard to complete the audio version of the Fascinating Folktales of Punjab books on request of many parents who are second or third generation Punjabis and have difficulty pronouncing the 'Theth Punjabi' in these books or simply because they love the way I narrate these stories.

These stories will transport children to their Punjab - where animals and birds, human beings and trees - all interact with each other in Punjabi -- the language of love.

The audio versions are absolutely free for everyone to listen, download, or share.
 
Enjoy!
Gurmeet Kaur
Author, Fascinating Folktales of Punjab
Listen / Download Here

Parent Review

Fascinating Folktales of Punjab series are stories written at a level, same as the scripts written for Hollywood animated films for children. Absolutely childlike with heights of intellect in them, which makes them age-appropriate for ALL.

The author, Gurmeet Kaur, has made them twice as lively in the audio version by adding her expressive voice along with a true sentiment from the heart.

Music composer, Jitin Bajwa, has created exactly what artists Susanna Dong and Chaaya Prabhat have created for printed version of these stories; simply a mesmerizing resonance for the words through musical instruments and through
paint brush, respectively.

And last but not the least is Liv Kaur, who pops up out of nowhere at the end of audio version of each story, just to make you crave for another.
- H. Singh, U.S.A

Listen / Download Here
 

Dear Friend,

Wish you a very happy 2019.

Our team has been busy not only taking the Fascinating Folktales to the schools of Punjab that you can see the testemonies of on our Youtube channel and Facebook Page but also - on another important mission that we need your support on.

I was in Kartapur Sahib, West Punjab (the last earthly abode of Baba Nanak) in Feb. 2018 and felt a deep connection to the sacred space because unlike East Punjab the Gurdwara Sahib complex and the fields of Baba Nanak still made you travel back in time and connect to the time and space of Guru Sahib. 

With Kartarpur Corridor opening news, I got a bit worried when I saw the overly commercialized plans for the village. Long story short, after knocking on several doors to take the preservation of the sacred place - I decided to do something about it. I cannot in my lifetime bear to see this important place become a city of marbleized structures in the name of religous tourism that has spoiled the serenity of Darbar Sahib, Amritsar and Nankana Sahib.

I have written to a Letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan. Please read my letter here, draft your own and send along. All the details on addresses etc. are provided.

👉https://bit.ly/2VIqUyA👈

I have also set up a Facebook Page - ਥਾਨ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ - Kartarpur - The Abode Blissful and stared on Online Petition. Please be a part of this noble cause. Spare a few minutes - read about our ask, connect with us, spread the word, write letters, sign and forward the petiton. 

I appreciate you being there for this cause for the sake of our heritage and our future generations.

Many Thanks,

Gurmeet Kaur 

www.folktalesofpunjab.com

Dear Friends,

Thank You, for supporting our projects.  We celebrated Gurpurab in Nankana Sahib by gifting books to children from Peshawar, Sindh, Baluchistan, Lahore and ofcourse the ones that live right there at the Janam Asthan. In East Punjab, we continue to reach out to government schools in the remotest areas without access to good Punjabi literature for children. 

With our Sanjha Punjab Edition, we hope to revive a lost dream in the children of Punjab — of the love of Undivided Punjab and its beautiful Mother Language Punjabi..and to instill in them that Punjabiyat transcends religious, class, geographical and dialectical boundaries.

Please see more pictures from the field and meet some of the children from both sides of the fence here. It will bring a smile on your face. Click Here.

Happy commencement of the 550th year.

Gurmeet Kaur

DVN

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

In February of 2018, I took another leap of faith, because I knew you were there for me. You enabled me to dream of extending the Fascinating Folktales of Punjab project to our home land – where Punjabi is dying at a fast rate, where children’s right to their mother language is being taken away from them in the name of modern education — to Punjab, but NOT just East Punjab, also to the West Punjab.

It is probably for the first time that someone has attempted to create children’s literature with such beauty in both the scripts of Punjabi language – Gurmukhi & Shahmukhi, along with English translations. I invite you  to read this article that just came in the Indian Express - 

Syllables that Bind

The books were received well. With your help we reached out to thousands of children. But we are not stopping. We aim to reach thousands more.

Read what we intend to do in 2019.

Fascinating Folktales - Engage Punjab 2019

Your donation this year will enable us to reach to children in remote areas of Punjab who do not have access to good quality reading material via reading to them and engaging them in Storytelling performances. My hope for this project is:

that it will bring the children of Punjab separated by a barbed wire fence closer together
that it will rekindle the love of the mother language for all our children
that it will inspire other authors to create more beautiful literature in authentic Punjabi

Please visit our Facebook page and Youtube channels to see what a difference these books are making to excite children towards #ਮਾਂਬੋਲੀ_ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 

Thank You, so much for being there for this project and enabling me to continue with this seva for the sixth straight year.

To many more years of serving Maboli Punjabi with your support.

Yours Truly,

Gurmeet Kaur
www.folktalesofpunjab.com

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
 
In November of 2017, I took another leap of faith, because I knew you were there for me. You enabled me to dream of extending the Fascinating Folktales of Punjab project to our home land - where Punjabi is dying at a fast rate, where children's right to their mother language is being taken away from them in the name of modern education -- to Punjab, but NOT just East Punjab, also to the West Punjab.
 
It is probably for the first time that someone has attempted to create children's literature with such beauty in both the scripts of Punjabi language - Gurmukhi & Shahmukhi, along with English translations. 
 
My hope for the Undivided Punjab Edition of our books is that it will

• bring the children of Punjab separated by a barbed wire fence closer together
• rekindle the love of the mother language for all our children
• inspire other authors to create more beautiful literature in authentic Punjabi  

The books are currently being printed and will be available to distribute in Punjab in February and worldwide in March. If you contributed to this project and qualify for adoption of books, please email at us [email protected] to let us know where you would like to send your adopted books to. Please send the name of the organization/person, complete address, and a contact phone number and/or email address. Your books will make it to their new homes in time for Vaisakhi. 
 
Also, you will be very pleased to hear that I have been invited to launch the book in Lahore, by LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) at their first Punjabi Literature Conference in February. I am very excited for this launch which includes readings at several private and public schools in Lahore. I will also participate in Lyallpur Punjabi Literary Festival at Faislabad, birth place of revolutionary leader of Indian Independence, Bhagat Singh. While in West Punjab, I will be reading and donating books to children in Nankana Sahib and Kartarpur Sahib. 
 
I will be sure to send pictures to our Facebook page. Please keep in touch by liking it here. 
 
Thank You, so much for being there for this project and enabling me to continue with this seva for the sixth straight year. 
 
To many more years of serving Maboli Punjabi with your support.
 
Yours Truly,
 
Gurmeet Kaur
www.folktalesofpunjab.com