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Literacy
A shelf worth walking to, in every village school
About this initiative
Handing a school a carton of books changes nothing. We have watched cartons sit unopened for two years because nobody was responsible for them and nobody had time to run a reading hour.
So Books for Every Child is a system, not a donation. Each site gets an age-graded collection of 400–1,200 titles chosen against ASER reading levels, a lockable steel almirah, a colour-coded shelving scheme the children themselves maintain, one teacher trained as a librarian, and a protected 45-minute reading period every week that the headmaster signs off on.
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Books for Every Child
Fund a piece of it, give a few hours on a distribution day, or bring your company in as a partner.
Online gifts are receipted under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act.
Twice a year we run an ASER-style oral reading assessment on a sample of Classes 3 to 5. The number we care about is the share of children who can read a Class-2 level paragraph. Across our adopted schools that figure moved from 31% in 2021 to 58% in 2025.
Village volunteers, mostly mothers and retired teachers, run the Saturday reading circles. They are the reason the libraries stay open when our staff are not in the district.
Books distributed
Libraries running
Weekly reading hours held
Progress
Updated by our programme team from delivery registers and school visits.
11,840
Children reached
27
Schools covered
10
Events completed
Objectives
Where it runs
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Book Distribution
A graded collection of Telugu and English readers handed over to KGBV Huzurnagar, catalogued on the spot with the children.
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Infrastructure
Three years, one school, measured end to end
₹42.6 L
Invested so far
Training / Workshop
A two-day residential workshop for the teachers who will run the school libraries: cataloguing, reading-level grading, the reading hour, and the ASER assessment.
₹2,500 puts fifty story books on a shelf in a government school that has none. We are stocking nineteen more libraries before the next academic year opens.
₹8,07,000 raised of ₹12,00,000 goal
67%
Learning Materials
Three thousand school kits for children across twenty-seven government schools, delivered in the first week of the academic year — not the third month.
₹5,56,800 raised of ₹19,20,000 goal
29%Gifts marked for an initiative are spent only on it, and we report back what they bought — the school, the quantity and the date.
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