A village substructure in one of Mumbai’s slightest grown metropolitan wards is building opportunities to assistance a girl impact change
A football compare in progress. Pics/Atul Kamble
Located in a gullies of Govandi, The Next Page — a developmental space for immature minds — was desirous by a energy of a committed group. The thought for an oasis in a sidelined village was planted when clergyman Anoop Parik started operative as a training associate in Shivaji Nagar. His knowledge was dotted with triumphs and tribulations. While on one palm many of his students were means to champion their particular journeys, others were limited by a typicalities of a back area.
Books and football emerged as gamechangers that helped some of Parik’s tutees mount out within a community. The substructure began a operations as a reading room in 2020, 9 years after Parik recognised a severe devise for it. Now they aim to enhance to 3 centres within Govandi. “We don’t wish to go over this circle, as educational modules can’t be copy-pasted from one village to another.
Anoop Parik
We demeanour brazen to formulating a football bar for a ward, and enlivening players into division-level sports,” he shares. The Next Page library is housed in a three-storey building. Children opposite ages organisation to a space to read, pull and learn their abilities. Parik mentions their stream efforts during bridging training gaps: “The purpose of a library is far-reaching. On a micro-level, we are invested in reading and storytelling sessions to assistance immature readers locate adult in a fun way.”
The clergyman recently visited indie bookstore Kahani Tree to collect books. Sangeeta Bhansali, a founder, says, “Parik had concerned a librarians in a preference process. This cultivates responsibility. Independent bookstores should always support and customise reading initiatives. We have an overdo programme underneath that we set adult libraries in impecunious areas opposite India. And while we yield different story books that applaud differences, we also ask village leaders about their needs.”
The library circulated 11,000 books in 2021. It’s a attainment given how relatives need to be frequently assured about a prospects of artistic training by a humanities and sport. Parik is mindful of a region’s varying impoverishment levels and intends to make Baiganwadi grow, too. The establishment has survived with a assistance of family and friends, and crowd-funding hopes that included people from a organisation will serve a purpose of chance, choice and change.
At: 43/M/7, Road Number 5, Shivaji Nagar, Govandi East.
Log on to: thenextpage.in
Call: 9167736758
