{"id":5985,"date":"2019-08-01T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tipsessions.com\/learning\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:08:22","slug":"buguri-library-making-childhood-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baeru.org\/learning\/buguri-library-making-childhood-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Buguri Library: Making childhood more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started in 2016, by the organization Hasiru Dala, the Buguri library caters to around 250 children from the nearby slum. Two of its sister libraries are mobile, and another two are located in Mysore and Tumkur, overall the program reaches 600 children across Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with four days a week, now seven days a week we have sessions. We\u2019re never closed. This was a demand from the kids\u201d says Lakshmi Karunakaran, who organizes the library initiative. \u201cMuch of how the library is run depends on the kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Buguri, many initiatives across the country are seeking to make reading more accessible such as Gyan-key which opens libraries in rural schools that are used and run by students and Pratham Books, a non-profit publisher publishing books in regional languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Buguri library also addresses a much deeper problem of drug addiction, violence and child marriage in the communities that surround them \u201cwhen we started the library, the kids had many behaviour problems\u201d says Chaitra who runs the Buguri library in Mysore \u201cthey used to smoke and have many bad habits, this gradually decreased. Now they have space, a reading space, a space to talk openly.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur main aim is to keep our sons away from cigarettes, beedee\u2019s and ganja. If they stay from them and go to the library, then our work is done\u201d says Mansoor Ali, a dry waste management supervisor from the slum, two out of his three children attend the library. Before parents had to walk around 1 kilometre to drop their children to the nearest school, after which they would have to pick them up and organize tuitions or other kinds of after school care, now with the library they don\u2019t have to worry \u201cinstead of roaming through the streets in the evening, they are in the library reading and that\u2019s good.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the challenges, Buguri library has also had another interesting side effect – although the goal was never about reducing dropouts, it seems to have happened anyway. \u201cbefore my children used to come back from school and do nothing\u201d says Pushpa, a Buguri parent \u201cnow my children, especially my son, are very interested in reading, writing and art. When he grows up, he wants to become an engineer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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