Spread the good word about The Community Library Project
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December 18, 2020 18:54 IST
In the season of giving, a Delhi-based project is raising support for a community library that goes beyond books
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The Community Library Project in progress before Covid
In the season of giving, a Delhi-based project is raising support for a community library that goes beyond books
During the first pandemic lockdown in March, Zomato employee Jalish Ansari lost his job. While many fellow migrants had returned to their native villages, he decided to stay in Delhi and look for other employment. Going back to his village in Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, was not an option it would have meant compromising his daughters’ education. Heena, who studies in DPS, Gurugram, and Sana in Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony (both in standard six), were anxious too, as schools were closed and online classes had just begun. Amidst this, they had one escape: The Community Libra
Polling booths, wedding halls part of vaccine plan As the country inches closer to the vaccine roll-out, the authorities are mulling over sites where people can receive the inoculation. India’s health administrators are evaluating several options including polling booths and wedding halls. They will need many options owing to the ambitious the aim of immunising 300 million Indians by the middle of 2021. Private hospitals will also be used for inoculation. The government plans to tightly control the entire process, from storage and transportation of the vaccine to the way it is administered, the writer says.
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How the founders of community libraries for children are raising money during the pandemic
Mridula Koshy, who conceptualised The Community Library Project in Delhi-NCR, explains the principles and the plans. Before the pandemic: Child readers of The Community Library Project
If you follow The Community Library Project on social media, or even if you’ve chanced across Michael Creighton’s poignant essay for this series in August, you’d know that this year has been a particularly difficult one for this citizen-led free library project. To navigate through 2021, to raise funds in order to rebuild two of their four libraries in Delhi-NCR, to run their remotely conducted Reading Fluency programmes and to sustain their online WhatsApp library, Duniya Sabki, TCLP is organising a fundraiser, the Free Library Festival 2020.