Here’s how a community library at Govandi is encouraging kids to read
Updated On: 09 November, 2022 01:53 PM IST | Mumbai | Sarasvati T
‘Shelf Life with Mid-day’ is a series covering the reading culture in Mumbai. This week, we look at how a free community library at Govandi’s Shivaji Nagar is providing a space for children to develop a habit for reading and explore books of different genres
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Anoop Parik, founder of the Next Page Community Foundation. Image credit: Raj Patil
“Through books, I have been able to have my own perspective about different things in addition to what we have been taught by our parents and the community,” says Shweta Shetty, a part-time manager at the Next Page library at Govandi’s Shivaji Nagar area in Mumbai.
As someone who has grown up studying under Anoop Parik, founder of the Next Page Community Foundation (NPCF), the organisation that runs the library, Shetty has developed a deeper interest in reading each day. From Roald Dahl’s books to Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, she says the journey has been an enlightening one. Today, the 20-year-old wilfully manages to take history classes at the library’s free workshops for kids, while also working as a football coach with the NPCF’s girls’ football team.
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