Since September 2006, Sakshi has established libraries in Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) schools in collaboration with “Room to Read”, an NGO from San Francisco, US.
This programme is supposed to improve the pupils’ reading and writing skills, offering children books, posters, games and craft materials.
In each such library, a Sakshi facilitator is specially trained to interact with the children. He holds sessions in storytelling, arts, crafts and role play. A student from a covered school goes to the library for 6 hours in a week.
102 “Sakshi”-“Room to Read” libraries are currently functioning in Delhi (Central and West Zone). Around 90,000 MCD School pupils (45,000 boys and 35,000 girls) benefit from this programme.
