Tribal Community Library Project

We have an ambitious project in hand! I am calling it ambitious because this has been tried before, numerous times, but have not succeeded. Some withered away due to lack of funds, some drained away all the resources before they could even get the basic infrastructure up while the rest succumbed to numerous political & social pressures from local money mongers.

We want to provide talented tribal youth with the facilities of a modern day community library, equipped with books & educational tools.

It sounds quite depressing, right? So why even begin this tumultuous journey & waste all this time & effort?

We have one simple reason to convince us – it is just the right thing to do!

I bet social workers before us have had a similar conviction but yet their failures seem quite insignificant at this point in time. After all, our inspiration lies within ourselves on the righteousness of the work and knowing that all failures should be treated as small steps towards learning the right way to succeed.

The Institution called Jay Shakuntala Welfare Foundation

JSWF has a successful track record of educating, training, coaching & mentoring tribal youth of Chhattisgarh, working directly with the communities as insiders & extending their helping hands much beyond class room teaching.

Today, the institute feels proud to have mentored tribal students who now excel in scholastic curricula as well as in tribal heritage & cultural aspects including performing arts, tribal music & literature. Their students perform regularly at various regional & state level cultural programs, re-emphasizing with people the values of nurturing tribal art forms of dance, music, handicrafts etc.

Women’s Education Empowerment & Growth

The institute is run completely by women who have an amazing determination to move forward even in the face of the worst challenges of funding, social & political road blocks. The social structure & the administrative structure in rural areas have not changed since the last 1800s!

Unfortunately, while Indian women abroad are flying to space & Indian women are running some of the largest, most respected global corporations in the world, back in the country, the situation is overpowered by oppression, coercion & bribery.

More Engineering & Medical College Degrees than Students

Nothing could disprove that education in India by & large have degraded in the hands on the money-minting capitalists! Education costs have multiplied several times and so have the rate of unemployment within graduate students especially in engineering & medical courses.

It is not that you cannot get a degree but you may not get the right education. Students are often lured into these college with false pretexts and subsequently cheated out of their money, time and career. These capitalists are not alone. They are backed by several, innocuously powerful political & administrative communities, offering them the legitimate grounds to carry on their business.

In such social and political conditions, where misinformation is systemic and the students are more eager to get their degree than to be able to think, plan & execute long term career goals, offering a white solution is impossible! Instead, the Community Library Project is aimed to provide those resources that a genuinely interested student can make the best use of during their student life.

The libraries will be maintained by the local students while a larger team of professionals will be responsible for the logistics, supply and mentoring & counseling those students who seek to use that privilege. There is no compulsion, there is no incentive except for the student’s own urge to read & grow. We will be taking the role of enablers & facilitators. Our mentors will be available for face-to-face consultation, assistance with their curriculum & career counseling as the students’ need arises.

You can help! Join Us!

The pleasures of working together on this ambitious plan is immense. The pitfalls are innumerable!

We welcome educators, teachers, trainers, professionals to join us in our hope that we may be able to offer a self sustainable model to build more such libraries and assistance e-kiosks to aspiring students.

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