How we will utilise these books

68% of our children live in villages, they face many challenges and have limited access to resources including support and guidance from parents and elders. Even when they complete their studies the village children find it difficult to earn a livelihood. Our focus is to help build life skills and creativity in rural children. It is a well-known knowledge that storytelling builds following critical abilities in children: listening, communication, confidence, imagination, memory, concentration and values. We focus on developing these in children in the age group of 5-14 years which is their most impressionable age. Through Sahyog Foundation’s initiative, we expect the children will be better prepared to deal with their challenges and earn & create much better livelihoods for themselves. We plan to procure 6 library kits in the local languages of the children. Each of the kits will be shared among children from 2 villages. The total number of children that will be impacted is 500 +. Currently, we are using downloaded copies in black &white from Story Weaver of Pratham Books, the library will help children get the joy of touching, feeling and reading the books in colour.