Book Donations

BACKGROUND

School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to complete disconnect from education for the vast majority of children or inadequate alternatives like community based classes or poor alternatives in the form of online education, including mobile phone-based learning.

One complete academic year has elapsed in this manner, with almost no or little curricular learning in the current class. But this is only one kind of loss of learning. Equally alarming is the widespread phenomenon of ‘forgetting’ by students of learning from the previous class – this is regression in their curricular learning.

Thus, this overall loss of learning – loss (regression or forgetting) of what children had learnt in the previous class as well as what they did not get an opportunity to learn in the present class – is going to lead to a cumulative loss over the years, impacting not only the academic performance of children in their school years but also their adult lives. To ensure that this does not happen, multiple strategies must be adopted with rigorous implementation to compensate for this overall loss of learning when schools reopen.

BOOK DONATION DRIVE – MANA OORU MANA BADI

PROJECT OUTCOMES

• Students who are receiving books in government schools are encouraged to spend significant amounts of time with books which leads to a first step toward reading achievement.
• Students who are donating books are effectively engaged and motivated to spread the joy of reading while understanding the sense of community service.

PROJECT OUTPUTS

• Collecting 17,900 Books by engaging Private Schools Students located in Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medchal Districts
• Establishing 179 libraries in the Government Schools
• Setting up 100 books in each library