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Library and Educational Kits for Primary SchoolLibrary and Educational Kits for Primary School
Year of establishment : 2009
Taking into account the usefulness and importance of libraries for building a healthy society, Shishuvihar has given prominence to library activities since the very beginning. With the idea of inculcating reading habits in children from childhood, a library is set up at Shishuvihar with various related activities.
Shishuvihar’s library contains more than 17,000 different books on 15 thematic topics . More than 2500 readers take advantage of it every year. The library continues to be enriched by the purchase and gift of new books every year.
Shishuvihar has been instrumental in revamping the libraries of the District Corporation schools of Bhavnagar where a total of 64,800 books have been placed in 442 Schools in the presence of the Hon’ble Governor of Gujarat, Smt. Kamlaji . An important function of Shishuvihar under library activity is to provide more than 450 children's literature books at a cost of Rs. 8000 / - to Bhavnagar Primary Education Committee and District Panchayat Education Committee so that their library keeps running.
To keep the teachers and children upbreast with the happenings, various repetitive workshops are being conducted. For teachers, the workshop teaches library management, children management and so on. To make sure that the children read through the year, story telling sessions are held, drawing competitions are held based on the stories they read and a yearly calendar is being printed since 2009 with the best 12 selected pictures and these calendars are distributed pan India.
Shishuvihar’s Primary Education Committee has undertaken an initiative since 2010 under which the teachers of the Government Primary School of Bhavnagar collect information of extremely underprivileged children or orphans and 1650 to 1700 such children are provided with school kits.