Currently running across 100 schools in Goa, this programme promotes literacy and learning among new readers through carefully selected, age-appropriate books and storytelling.

Studies have shown that children who read show marked improvement in academic performance. Reading has strong links to language development, spelling, creativity, as well as artistic abilities that can be strengthened through visual stimulations via good picture and illustrated books. Therefore, bridging the non-literate and literate worlds is best mediated through the pedagogy of storytelling and story reading.

The Libraries in Schools (LiS) program aims to bring these two strong pedagogic practices together to strengthen learning, literacy and the human experience. It provides grade-appropriate reading resources to children who are first-generation school goers and uses the storytelling method to develop thinking and literacy skills.