For the inmates at Daarul Muhsinaat, an orphanage in Singhpora Pattan, the thought of having a library was an unreal one until Covid-19 happened.
“The girls started to become extremely tense because of the closure of schools and as much as I tried, I couldn’t teach them every subject,” Fahmeeda Mir, warden of the allgirls-orphanage, said. The Kashmir schools were shut for seven months when the Covid-19 lockdown took over, thus creating a sense of anxiety and distress. Inmates found it suffocating to spend days at ‘home’. Their boredom, however, came to an end when a library was set up in the orphanage by Karvaan Book Project in partnership with Sadaf Mir, a volunteer with Teach for India.
With the aim of providing books to students lacking access to the internet and libraries, Karvaan was founded by Furkan Latif Khan, a Kashmiri journalist, in 2016.
Khan, an ardent reader, said that the reading habits develop late in Kashmir which leads to a delay in the kids’ personal development and the schools here play a major role in this aspect. “As a kid, it was very difficult to access libraries and books even in schools because they mostly encourage reading the syllabus books.” She believes families and schools must encourage children to read books beyond their curriculum from a young age.
Khan used to walk from her school to an NGO-established library in Srinagar, where she could pick and choose from the books donated by people.
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