EDUCATION

•  Chellaram Charities started the Kaycee Libraries within the Read India Library Project of Pratham in the slums of Dharavi in the year 2004.

•  The main objective of this program was to help the children from the underprivileged families to avail education facilities and improve their skills in reading, writing and drawing.

•  Every library has a teacher who takes classes, mostly during the afternoons. Children who are weak in studies are identified from the schools and the community. Their parents are first approached and when they are convinced they start sending the kids to the libraries.

•  The timings of the libraries are adjusted in co-ordination with the school timings so that they do not clash.

•  The books in the library are entertaining as well as thought provoking.

•  The library also has books on health education and personal and environmental hygiene.