Teaching children to open a book is teaching them to open their minds.

And what better way to do than inaugurating 50 libraries in 50 schools in Mulbagal taluka of Kolar district and training 50 government school teachers on library management and grow by. This library project has come alive thanks to akamai technologies in association with India Literacy Project.

The program, called grow by reading, starts by color coding all the books in the library using six colors, green to yellow (GROW BY – green, red, orange, white, blue yellow).

Children are first assessed on their reading levels and mapped to one of the colors. The children are then encouraged to pick books from their level.

Through child friendly books and a structured framework and monitoring process, our library programs bring the joy of reading to the classroom and help improve reading in native and English language.