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• July 2009: Chillibreeze Comic book on malaria awareness campaign - Malaria Policy Center, Yahoo News, Spice Zee, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, ComicBook.com, Chennai Online, Morung Express
  

• SPECIAL NEWS Chillibreeze publishes comic book to launch malaria awareness campaign. Read about the Malaria Comic Book and download a copy.

  June 2009: Animation Xpress, The Morung Express, The Shillong Times, The Sentinel, Mawphor (Khasi daily - local language), Global Health TV
• Read more about the Malaria Comic Book and download a copy.

Comic Books For Malaria Education - Malaria Policy Center

A new comic book called A Tale of Two Magic Potions is being used to teach children in Shillong, India about malaria. Produced by Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt. Ltd., the book hopes to entertain and educate students through an engaging medium. Chillibreeze is currently testing the effectiveness of the educational tool.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.malariapolicycenter.org/blog/?tag=comic-books

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Comic book to spread awareness about malaria - Yahoo News

Shillong, July 6 (PTI) A new comic has hit the stands but its aim is not just to amuse but to spread awareness about malaria that affects people in every part of the country, especially the northeast. ''A Tale of Two Magic Potions'' by Shillong-based content and service provider Chillibreeze Solutions is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease.

The company kicked off its malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book, which is the probably the first-ever health comic book in the country, among Class V students of three schools in Shillong, company director Nishi Viwanathan said. To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the company staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quiz contests.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20090706/1416/tnl-comic-book-to-spread-awareness-about.html

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Comic book to spread Malaria awareness - Spice Zee

Shillong, July 06: Believing that children should be the first targets in creating awareness about a disease, a company has published and distributed a comic book on malaria among school kids here.

Shillong-based Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, a content and design service provider, used its in-house expertise to produce the comic - A Tale of Two Magic Potions - which aims to educate school children on the disease which affects every part of the country, specially the Northeast.

In what may be considered as the first-ever health comic book in the country, the book, a director of the company, Nishi Viswanathan, explains, is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease.

The Chillibreeeze solutions kicked off its Malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book among Class V students of three schools in Shillong where the company is headquartered.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizz contests with attractive prizes to boot.

The chillibreeze staff first explained the format of the contest to the students before giving them 10 minutes to complete the multiple choice questions. Once the quiz contest was completed, the comic books were handed out to all students. The students were then told that Chillibreeze would be returning soon for the final quiz contest.

The students showed appreciable improvement in their knowledge about Malaria as indicated by their answers to the quizzes, Viswanathan claimed.

“Our purpose is to spread the awareness of the disease among students and do it in a way the children enjoy it,” she says.

Chillibreeze hopes to build strategic partnerships for this project and distribute translated versions of the comic book at schools across India.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://spicezee.zeenews.com/articles/story34376.htm

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Here comes a comic book to spread Malaria awareness - The Hindu

Shillong (PTI): Believing that children should be the first targets in creating awareness about a disease, a company has published and distributed a comic book on malaria among school kids here.

Shillong-based Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, a content and design service provider, used its in-house expertise to produce the comic - A Tale of Two Magic Potions - which aims to educate school children on the disease which affects every part of the country, specially the Northeast.

In what may be considered as the first-ever health comic book in the country, the book, a director of the company, Nishi Viswanathan, explains, is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease.

The Chillibreeeze solutions kicked off its Malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book among Class V students of three schools in Shillong where the company is headquartered.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizz contests with attractive prizes to boot.

The chillibreeze staff first explained the format of the contest to the students before giving them 10 minutes to complete the multiple choice questions.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/099200907061021.htm

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Comic book spreads malaria awareness - Deccan Chronicle

Shillong: A new comic book has hit the stands but its aim is not just to amuse but to spread awareness about malaria that affects people in every part of the country, especially the northeast.

'A Tale of Two Magic Potions' by Shillong-based content and service provider, Chillibreeze Solutions, is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease.

The company kicked off its malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book, which is probably the first-ever health comic book in the country, among Class V students of three schools in Shillong, the company director, Ms Nishi Viwanathan, said.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the company staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quiz contests.

After reading the comics, the students showed appreciable improvement in their knowledge about malaria as indicated by their answers, Ms Viswanathan claimed.

"Our purpose is to spread awareness of the disease among students and do it in a way the children enjoy it," she says.

The company hopes to build strategic partnerships for the project and distribute translated versions of the comic book in schools across the country.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.deccanchronicle.com/health/comic-book-spreads-malaria-awareness-133

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Comic Book on Malaria Looks to Educate and Protect Children - ComicBook.com

Comic books have been used for many things over the years: propaganda, encouraging drug-free lifestyles, aiding hunger relief in other countries. Now, a new comic book is being distributed to children living in Shillong, India; the town, located in the northeastern part of the Asian country, is hoping to educate children on the disease Malaria.

Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, a company based on design and content services, is behind the project, pulling from their own talent pool to produce A Tale of Two Magic Potions, a story that will be used in schools to educate students about Malaria, a disease that affects many around India. The company hopes to entertain and educate at the same time, and the comic has already been distributed to three schools in the Shillong area, where Chillibreeze is located.

In an effort to gauge just how effective the awareness campaign is, Chillibreeze gave before and after reading quizzes to the children to gauge just how much they have learned about the disease, offering prizes as an incentive for performance. Hopefully the effort will pay off in reaching out to the communities suffering from Malaria through their children.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://comicbook.com/blog/2009/07/06/comic-book-on-malaria-looks-to-educate-and-protect-children/

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Comic book to spread awareness about malaria - Chennai Online

Shillong, July 6 A new comic has hit the stands but its aim is not just to amuse but to spread awareness about malaria that affects people in every part of the country, especially the northeast.

'A Tale of Two Magic Potions' by Shillong-based content and service provider Chillibreeze Solutions is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease.

The company kicked off its malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book, which is the probably the first-ever health comic book in the country, among Class V students of three schools in Shillong, company director Nishi Viwanathan said.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the company staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quiz contests.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://news.chennaionline.com/newsitem.aspx?NEWSID=3b674cfd-c6a5-42d4-b003-95fa0f385197&CATEGORYNAME=NATL

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Comic book to spread awareness about malaria - Morung Express

Shillong, July 6 (PTI): A new comic has hit the stands but its aim is not just to amuse but to spread awareness about malaria that affects people in every part of the country, especially the northeast. ‘A Tale of Two Magic Potions’ by Shillong-based content and service provider Chillibreeze Solutions is intended to educate while entertaining school-going children on the virulence of the disease. The company kicked off its malaria awareness campaign recently by distributing the comic book, which is the probably the first-ever health comic book in the country, among Class V students of three schools in Shillong, company director Nishi Viwanathan said. To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, the company staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quiz contests.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.morungexpress.com/regional/27926.html

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Chillibreeze introduces comic book to spread malaria awareness - Animation Xpress.com

25 June 2009: Shillong based content and design service provider Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt. Ltd released a comic book titled ‘A Tale of Two Magic Potions‘ to spread the awareness of malaria disease recently.

The comics are currently available in print and online versions both and are not for sale. The comic book is the first in a series of health comics intended to entertain, engage and educate school-going children.

Speaking to Animationxpress.com, Chillibreeze Director and Chief Content Officer Nishi Viswanathan said "The main aim was to spread the awareness about hazards of Malaria but not through traditional means. We wanted to do something that could have a lasting effect on young minds. Education in the form of brochures can sometimes be boring and ineffective, hence we selected comic book for its entertainment value. Education here occurs via osmosis and the content on malaria is there but not in your face. The goal is to get kids to enjoy it."

The comic book was created by a small team during their spare time in a about a couple of months. The script, storyboard and dialogues were done by Nishi Viswanathan while the illustrations were done by Nimai and Prem and edited by Suneethi Rao who headed the project management team. The comics are being distributed free of cost to school children and the online version is available at http://chillibreeze.com/ebooks/pdf/malaria.pdf.

The campaign was started by distributing the comic book to 5th grade students in 3 schools in Shillong, Meghalaya, where the company is headquartered. To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizzes with attractive prizes.

Chillibreeze staff arrived at each of the school premises and spoke to the students about the upcoming malaria quiz contest. The format of the questionnaire was explained and students were given ten minutes to complete the multiple choice quiz. Once the quiz was done, the comic books were handed out to all the students.

A post-distribution contest was conducted a few days after the day the comics were distributed. The students showed a visible improvement in their knowledge about Malaria as indicated by their quiz answers.

According to Dr. Nishi Viswanathan, one of the directors at Chillibreeze, this comic is just the beginning of a long campaign. Chillibreeze would be taking the campaign further with more comics that add value to kids and families such as saving money for future, value of sincere work, protecting the environment and more.

Launched in June 2004 by Ralph Budelman, Chillibreeze Solutions is a content and design service provider offering a wide range of content writing across various verticals.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://usanx02.indiantelevision.co.in/index.php?file=story&id=20521

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Comic book on malaria awareness campaign - Morung Express

June 21, 2009: For several years, the directors of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt. Ltd. have nurtured the dream of giving something back to the society. This dream became a reality when the company, a content and design service provider using its own in-house expertise produced “A Tale of Two Magic Potions”, a comic book with a novel theme. A Tale of Two Magic Potions aims to spread malaria awareness in India, especially in North East India, where the disease is more prevalent. The comic book is the first in a series of health comics intended to entertain, engage and educate school-going children, the pillars of tomorrow’s society.

Chillibreeeze kicked off its malaria awareness campaign by distributing the comic book to Class Five students in three schools in Shillong, Meghalaya, where the company is headquartered. To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizzes with attractive prizes.

Chillibreeze staff arrived at each the school premises after prior permission from the principals and talked to the students about the upcoming malaria quiz contest. The format of the questionnaire was explained and students were given ten minutes to complete the multiple choice quiz. Once the quiz was done, the malaria comic books were handed out to all the students. The students were then told that Chillibreeze would be returning soon for the final quiz contest. The best performance would be rewarded with a certificate and a prize.

The post-distribution contests were conducted a few days after the day the comics were distributed. The students showed a visible improvement in their knowledge about Malaria as indicated by their quiz answers. According to Dr. Nishi Viswanathan, one of the directors at Chillibreeze.com, this pilot project is just the beginning of a long campaign. "Though it is essentially a preventable disease, hundreds of people in India die of Malaria. Distributing mosquito nets will help to a certain extent but the long term solution lies in empowering tomorrow's citizens with knowledge. Of course, ours is a small effort and it has just begun. But we hope we are able to add more than a few drops to the ocean," says Dr. Viswanathan, a medical doctor and the author of the comic book.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.morungexpress.com/regional/26768.html

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Spreading malaria awareness with a comic book - The Shillong Times

Shillong: For several years, the directors of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt. Ltd have nurtured the dream of giving something back to the society. This dream became a reality when the company, a content and design service provider, using its own in-house expertise produced A Tale of Two Magic Potions, a comic book with a novel theme.

A Tale of Two Magic Potions aims to spread malaria awareness in India, especially in North East India where the disease is more prevalent. The comic book is the first in a series of health comics intended to entertain, engage and educate school-going children, the pillars of tomorrow's society.

Chillibreeeze kicked off its malaria awareness campaign by distributing the comic book to Class V students of three schools in Shillong where the company is headquartered.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizzes with attractive prizes.

Chillibreeze staff arrived on each school premises with prior permission from the principals and talked to the students about the upcoming malaria quiz contest. The format of the questionnaire was explained and students were given ten minutes to complete the multiple choice quiz.

Once the quiz was done, the malaria comic books were handed out to all the students. The students were then told that Chillibreeze would be returning soon for the final quiz contest. The best performance would be rewarded with a certificate and a prize. The post-distribution contests were conducted a few days after the day the comics were distributed. The students showed a visible improvement in their knowledge about malaria as indicated by their quiz answers.

Chillibreeze hopes to build strategic partnerships for this project and distribute translated versions of the comic book at schools across India.

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Malaria awareness through comic books - The Sentinel

SHILLONG, June 19: Chillibreeze Solutions Private Limited, a content and design service provider based in Shillong, started its malaria awareness campaign in three schools by distributing comic books to class V students.

The book titled A Tale of Two Magic Potions was produced by the company using its own in-house expertise. According to a statement, the book aims at spreading awareness on malaria. The book is the first in a series of health comics intended to entertain, engage and educate school-going children, the statement said.

To gauge the effectiveness of the comic book, Chillibreeze staff conducted pre-distribution and post-distribution quizzes with attractive prizes. Dr Nishi Viswanathan, one of the directors at Chillibreeze.com, said the pilot project is just the beginning of a long campaign. “Though it is essentially a preventable disease, hundreds of people in the country die of Malaria.

Here is the link to the online newspaper http://www.sentinelassam.com/northeast.php?sec=2&subsec=9&id=14043&dtP=2009-06-20&ppr=1

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Da ki dur Komik, yn pynphriang iada pang Malaria ka Chillibreeze - Mawphor (Khasi daily - local language)

Shillong, Jylliew: La bun snem, ki nongpyniaid jong ka Chillibreeze Solution Pvt. Ltd ki la don ka jingangnud ban ai sngewbha ia ka imlang ka sahlang ha kaba kane jingangnud ne ka jingphohsniew kaba la wan urlong, ha kaba ki nongthoh bad ki nongdro dur ki jong kane hi ka office ki lah lah ban pynmih ia kane ka kot comic ban ialap paidbah kumno ban iada na ka jingpang Khieshoh (Malaria) ha ka ri baroh kawei.

Ia kane ka kot la jer kyrteng da ka "A Tale of Two Magic Potions" ba la pynwan dur kum ka kot comic. Kane ka kot ka la don jingthmu ban pynsaphriang kylleng ka ri India shaphang ka jingiada ia ka jingpang khiehshoh, khamtam ha ki thaiñ shatei lam mihngi, ha kaba kane ka jingpang ka kynrei bha.

Kane ka dei ka sien ba nyngkong duh ha kaba pynmih ia ki jingiada lyngba ki kot ban pynphriang ia ka jingtip shaphang kane ka jingpang kaba ai jinghikai ia ki khynnah kiba leit skul, kaba pynsngewtynnad bad kumjuh ruh kaba pynbyrngia ban pule. Ka Chillibreeze ka la sdang ia ka jingpynphriang ia ka jingiada ia ka jingpang Malaria da kaba leit ai sngewbha ne sam ia kine ki kot komik ha ki khynnah skul ba shong Klas Five sha ki lai tylli ki skul ha sor Shillong, Meghalaya ha kaba kane ka Kompani ka don ia ka office treikam jong ka. Ban kham pynsngewtynnad bad ban tip ba kane ka kot ka long kaba iarap, ki nongtrei jong kane ka kompani ki la leit ban sam ia ki kot bad ki jingkylli jong ki jingkyntip ryngkat bad ki buskit sha ki skul bapher bapher ha kylleng ka sor Shillong.

Ki nongtrei jong ka Chillibreeze shuwa ba kin leit sha ki skul ki da pan jingbit shuwa na ki nongpyniaid jong ka skul bad ki ai jingkren ia ki khynnah skul da kaba ong ba ynda ki la dep ban pule ia kine ki kot komik kan don ka jingkyntip. Kiba jop ia ka jingkyntip ha ki skul kin ioh ia ki buskit ryngkat bad ki certificate na ka Chillibreeze.

Ka jingsam ia ki jingkylli jingkyntip ka long khyndiat sngi hadien ba ki la dep ban sam ia ki kot komik sha ki khynnah skul. Lyngba kine ki jingkylli ha ki jingkyntip ka pyni shisha ba ki khynnah ki shim khia bad bun na ki mynta ki la kham shai shaphang ka jingpang Malaria.

Kum ban shu pynpaw ba ka Dr. Nishi Viswanathan kawei na ki nongpyniaid jong kane ka kompeni Chillibreeze.com ka la ong ba "kane ka jingpynmih na kane ka kot kadei ka sien jam kaba nyngkong bad kan dang iai iaid shaphang kat dang mih ki sngi." Ka la ong "watla ka dei ka jingpang kaba dang lah ban pynkoit hynrei dang bun pat ki briew kiba iap na kane ka jingpang." Hooid ka jingsam ia ki musari ka dei kaba bha hynrei ka jingdon ia ka jingstad ne ka jingtip shaphang ka jingpang ka long kaba kham kongsan. Watla ka jingleh ne ka jingsdang jong ngi ka long kaba rit hynrei ka jingkyrmen jong ngi ka long ba wat i shi jaw i um in pynlong ia ka duriaw bah" la ong ka Dr. Viswanathan, kaba dei ka doctor ha kajuh ka por ka nongthoh jong kane ka kot.

Ka Chillibreeze ka don ia ka jingkyrmen ba lada don kiwei kiwei ki seng kiba kwah ban iasnoh kti lang ne ban iatrei lang ha kaba pynpriang ia kane ka jingnang jingtip, ka long kaba kloi ban pdiang, khnang ban pyniar ia ka jingpynphriang ia kane ka kam ba ki la sdang. Kumjuh ruh shen kan sa pynmih ia kane ka kot ha ki ktien bapher bapher ba kin lah ban sam ia shibun ki skul kiba don ha ka ri India baroh kawei. Na ka bynta kiba kwah ban bei tyngka bad ban sam ia kane ka Kot Malaria lah ban pyntip sha info@chillibreeze.com.

Here is the link to the online newspaper
http://mawphor.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=26763&format=html

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Comic book spreads malaria message - Global Health TV

A message to be aware of the risks of malaria and take precautions against the disease is being spread in a novel way in India.

Chillibreeze.com has produced a new comic book with an anti-malaria theme.

The book, titled A Tale of Two Magic Potions, is aiming especially to target north-east India, where malaria is most widespread.

Students in schools are being handed the comic books free across the country in an effort to increase awareness of malaria's threat amongst young people.

Dr Nishi Viswanathan, director at Chillibreeze.com, told the Morung Express: "Though it is essentially a preventable disease, hundreds of people in India die of malaria.

"Distributing mosquito nets will help to a certain extent but the long term solution lies in empowering tomorrow's citizens with knowledge. Of course, ours is a small effort and it has just begun."

A Tale of Two Magic Potions is intended to be the first in a line of health-based comic books.

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Here is the link to the online newspaper
http://www.globalhealthtv.com/articles/comic_
book_spreads_malaria_message/date/

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