Education India Project #13048

Provide labs and books for children in Kuppam

by Agastya International Foundation

Provide labs and books for children in Kuppam

Project Report | Apr 5, 2023
Vidya Jyothi Library at Kuppam Campus

By Sameena Shaikh | Executive - Donor Relations

At our campus in Kuppam, the Vidya Jyothi Library is dedicated to the acquisition, cataloguing, grading, and promotion of library materials as well as to library activities, community library projects, and Mobile School Library outreach.

Quarter Highlights:

130 books were received from individual donors.

The cataloguing of 1450 books was completed from January to March.

There were regular school sessions held in the campus library. A total of 650 unique children and 132 teachers had been on campus this quarter. 6093 students were exposed to the campus and community libraries in total.

Using plastic containers, government teachers were trained on the "best out of waste."

MSL Library instructors underwent a 2-day training in Shamli and Varanasi, respectively, in January and March.

The Change Maker initiative, ‘Knowledge on A Bike’, which strives to support underprivileged children in remote areas, was introduced to community children during visits to nearby communities.

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Dec 7, 2022
Thanks for the support

By Rani | Executive- Donor Relations

Reading is a mind’s journey into a world of endless possibilities. But children settled in rural parts of India are far kept from the magic of books, due to lack of resources and opportunities. Through our Community Library Program, we aim at building local libraries that are overflowing with all genres of books, driving every child’s imagination to new horizons.

With your support, Agastya collected 20,100 books in Kuppam Library, collected 11,550 books cataloging. Digital library contains Collection of e-content which comprises 1800+ e-Books, and 1,500 + videos as on 30th September 2022.

Activities Conducted:

Building Vocabulary in their Mother Tongue and English, Sentence formation and story writing through “Pop-Up books” making, Comic story writing (recognize the difference between Original Text & Dialogue), Origami paper crafts (Different caps, figure puppets, gift box, and miniature book), Characterization, Dialogue narration & roll play through Mouth Puppet, Book Research through the activity “Pop-Up books and Book Club Activity.

Community Library programme and Maja Box programme: Book-based Activities: Conducting story-based activities and origami activities in the centers.

“MANA NESTHAM” (Our Friend) it is a Mobile School Library (MSL) concept. In this quarter from 1^stJuly 2022 to 30^th August 2022 reached 7 Schools with 600 children and 10 teachers. 1 MSL with 500 different category books. This session was conducted for 1 full day in each school, about 5 hrs.

Book Circulation: Children can borrow books from their community library.

During the last quarter, we reached 4,898 students’ exposures and 23 teachers’ exposures through Kuppam library. Children who visited library were the part of all the above activities. In Digital Library Activity, we reached 600 children exposures in the quarter July 2022 – September 2022.

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Aug 8, 2022
Thanks for the support

By Rani | Executive- Donor Relations

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