Conceptualized as a visually exciting and happy space that draws kids in, Apeejay Anand Children’s Library in the Salt Lake School has since 2010, become stimulating learning stations. The library offers basic reading, lending and reprographic services and delivers volunteer services to kids who are deprived of fundamental right for education

The mission of the Anand Library grows in more ways than one. The Libraries are a unique Education Support Program that also helps Apeejay Education Trust under which Apeejay Schools are run to identify and sponsor education of talented children from underprivileged backgrounds.

Apeejay Trust is directly collaborating with NGOs in other cities who care for urban and poor children. Anand Libraries have opened in NCR at a 24 hours shelter home for Boys, a 24 hours shelter home for girls run by Salaam Baalak Trust in Gurugram and at a 24 hour shelter home for girls in Najafgarh, in Kolkata’s Khidirpur Docks in a Shelter Home run by ApneAap and in Chandigarh at a Shelter Home run by Vatsal Chaya Trust. Click here to know about some of the children whose education has been sponsored.

“THE EACH ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAMME” initiated by the library involves the school children under the supervision of the teachers to teach the under privileged every Monday to Friday in the library in subjects like English, Mathematics, Computer science, Bengali, Hindi, Art & Craft, Dance, and Physical EducationThe library also holds the ART WORKSHOP every year commemorating the birth anniversary of Anand Paul who left us untimely due to a tragic accident in the year 1989. Children from diverse socio-economic backgrounds burst into a fiesta of colours.It is a progressive attempt to bridge the gap that exists in our society.

The Art Workshop organized by the Apeejay Anand Children’s Library commemorates and celebrates the birth anniversary of Anand Paul who left us untimely due to a tragic accident in the year 1989. The Workshop encourages children to explore their creativity and imagination with colours on media given on a theme based on love, empathy and compassion.

The Art Workshop this year, espousing the theme, “रंगों का खेला, खुशियों का मेला– Rango ka Khela, Khushiyon ka Mela”, saw thousands of children from the city and its peripheral areas, both from mainstream institution and NGO’s, explore the world of shades and hues, thus inspiring the insipid society to view the world in meaningful and variegated colours. Participating schools and organizations included Laxmipat Singhania Academy, Loreto (Sealdah), South Point School, Sri Sri Academy, Manovikas Kendra , Ideal School for Deaf, Rainbow project, Children Welfare, CINI Kolkata Unit Association, Pratham Padaskhep(Special), and FOCUS and the list goes on. The children on the lawns, under the blue sky, displayed their imaginative and creative drivein conceptualisation of the theme in graphic form and the in riot of colours achieved through mixing of paints, decorated the umbrellas, provided to them by the Apeejay Anand Children’s Library. The quaint world of their imagination, resplendent in yellow, green, red and blue, depicted diverse designs upholding the theme.