Saving Aliennee... | A story about Space, Aliens, SDGs, and dreams for a better future!

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Saving Aliennee…

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Once upon a time, s p a c e and story… aliens from a distant galaxy run out of fuel and land on the moon. The aliens are very small (the size of three laddoos stacked on top of each other), as is their space ship, but it has an FTL (Faster Than Light) drive and is immensely powerful. In their own galaxy, they fuel their engines with dreams. The aliens have excellent eyesight and can see clearly for a light year. Except for one alien who needs glasses. Its name is Aliennee! Copyright © 2019 Dream On, India! | www.dreamonindia.com

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Aliennee can only see ten thousand miles. Which is still very good. All of the aliens can oo

z m their eyesight in and out, like cameras do on Earth. The aliens string a very thin filament between two posts, on which they all sit comfortably. They observe the

s and discuss

what to do. They point their

at different

parts of the Earth, looking for high quality fuel.

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They calculate that they will need…

They start at the top of the Earth, white with snow. The polar bears’ dreams are very good (lots of fish, blue ice, beautiful purple and green lights in the sky) but there are not enough of them.

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They scan the Dream-o-meter over many different places on Earth, but they get readings of low-quality dreams full of greed, fear of others, and selfishness that will contaminate their drive and leave them stranded on the moon. While the aliens scan the planet, they notice there is air pollution, the rivers and seas are sick, glaciers are melting, people are yelling and hurting each other, and a lot of animals are dying. This makes the aliens sd. Copyright © 2019 Dream On, India! | www.dreamonindia.com

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Aliennee aDjUsTs its glasses and asks, “WHAT is that over there?” The other aliens say, “It is a very large

mountain

chain,

and

underneath it is a

piece shaped

of like

land an

upside down triangle, surrounded by water.”

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They zoom in and see beautiful birds with long, shimmering blue and green feathers. The Dreamo-meter signal readings indicate a very high quality source. The aliens believe it is coming from the dreams of the peacocks, until they move their eyes around and discover a human brother and sister asleep under a banyan tree. The aliens realize that the dreams of children are pure and strong! Copyright Š 2019 Dream On, India! | www.dreamonindia.com

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A ray of light from the sun behind the aliens gets magnified by Aliennee’s glasses, and because he was looking at the boy and girl, he almost sets the boy’s chappals on fire. The aliens can also use dreams to communicate, so Aliennee apologizes to them in their dreams, introduces himself, and says, “We need the dreams of you human children to get < back to our home. Can you

help us?

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The children wake up and realize that they have had the same strange dream. They want to help the aliens. The brother is very good at drawing, and the sister is very good

with

computers. They digitally spread a message far and wide to the children of India. They tell the children, “If we help the aliens get back home with our dreams, they will come back and help us solve some of our planet’s problems.” Copyright © 2019 Dream On, India! | www.dreamonindia.com

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Keeping the 17 Global Goals* in mind, the children of India send their dreams of a better world. The aliens’ gets such high readings it vibrates, and the ship is filled in three seconds flat. The aliens say to the brother and sister, “We believe you can save this world with your powerful dreams. Thank you for helping us to go HOME! You do not even need our equipment... just keep dreaming

and making changes that help lift all

the people, creatures and landscapes on this planet.

* The 17 Global Goals also known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

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We will come back to see you one day. We will meet you on the moon, which is a very nice place to play cricket and fly

kites”

The END. ~

Written by, NiNi & Holter Illustrated by, Avi & Rihaan Copyright © 2019 Dream On, India! | www.dreamonindia.com

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Experience Veena’s dream in India’s first Book of Dreams đ&#x;‘‰ www.dreamonindia.com/order

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I dream…

Draw your dream, keeping the 17 Global Goals in mind (use A4 size paper). Scan & email to dreams@dreamonindia.com and get featured on Facebook & Instagram @dreamonindia

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“Dream On India Studio� - A Pop-up Comic Art Installation An ‘out-of-this-world’ pop-up comic art installation to build creative visualization skills and enhance your ability to dream big for a better future for India, keeping in mind the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The story in this book inspires this experience.

Innumerable Dreams. And a Few Milestones. India’s first Book of Dreams titled ‘I dream‌’ co-authored by children of India Project Dream On, India! is India's largest social initiative undertaken to capture the dreams of children across socio-economic groups from across the country, with no ingrained competitive element. The initiative captured over 15,000 dreams between November 2018 and January 2019. India’s first global jury hosted on Instagram comprising specialists in education, child well-being and development, arts and social sciences from India, USA, UK, UAE, Finland, Singapore, New Zealand and more. India’s first online ‘Map of Dreams’ created that geo-tagged every dream to their location of submission. Each of the shortlisted submissions have been mapped to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, represented with a ‘Dreamburst’. Partnered with many NGOs including CRY, GiveIndia, Nanhi Kali, and other organizations and schools across India, with no commercial element.

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Dream On, India! is a social initiative dreamt by Play2Transform Group and partners Special thanks to our Dream Partner, KidZania for hosting this experience! Curator & Project Lead: Avinash Jhangiani Authors of ‘Saving Aliennee’: Dr Neela Vaswani, Holter Graham Publisher: Play2Transform Group

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