Programmes · Running
Reading camps in the flood season
Six weeks of daily reading in July and August, when schools on the chars close for the flood.
- Who it is for
- Children of 6 to 12 in libraries where the school closes in the flood
- Where
- 21 libraries in 2026
- Running since
- 2016
- Spent on it in 2025-26
- ₹26,40,000
- For CSR: Schedule VII
- (ii) Promoting education
- Programme lead
- Mitali Doley, Programme lead (sample person)
Who funds it
- A Delhi foundation (named in the annual report)
How it works
A short reading test at the start
Can the child read a paragraph from a Class 2 book? The same test at the end.
An hour and a half a day
Read-aloud, games with letters, and borrowing.
Results shared with the village
And with the school when it reopens.
Counted
What we can count
1,140
children who took both the first and the last reading test
July to August 2026 · Camp registers
61%
of them could read a Class 2 paragraph at the end, up from 38% at the start
July to August 2026 · Our own reading test, given by our librarians Not an independent evaluation; some of the change would have happened anyway.
Stories
From this programme
Reading camps in the flood season · August 2026
Eleven pairs of sandals at the door
The school closed for the flood on the first of July. The reading camp opened on the third.
A librarian in Morigaon district, 31