Programmes · Running
Village libraries
A room of books on stilts in each village, open six afternoons a week, run by a librarian who lives there.
- Who it is for
- Everyone in the village; most readers are children and young women
- Where
- 17 districts along the Brahmaputra, from Dhubri to Sadiya
- Running since
- 2011
- Spent on it in 2025-26
- ₹68,40,000
- For CSR: Schedule VII
- (ii) Promoting education
- Programme lead
- Mitali Doley, Programme lead (sample person)
Who funds it
- Donations from people in India
- A Guwahati foundation (named in the annual report)
- CSR: Libraries for Majuli (see CSR partnerships)
How it works
The village asks
The gaon panchayat or a school committee writes to us and gives a room or land.
A librarian from the village
Chosen with the village, trained by us, paid an honorarium.
Books in five languages
About 600 books to start, refreshed every year.
Every loan in the register
Which is where our figures come from.
Counted
What we can count
43
village libraries running (two closed for the flood, reopening in January)
November 2026 · Our list of libraries, on the Libraries page
9,817
readers with a card who borrowed at least once
2025-26 · Membership registers, checked by our field team Each person counted once.
1,92,300
books issued
2025-26 · Issue registers of all libraries A book borrowed twice counts twice.
54%
of readers with a card are women and girls
2025-26 · Membership registers