Khelvigyan Project for Village children

Why Do We Need a Toy/ Game Library Particularly in Villages?

For a majority of India’s child population, quality toys remain a pie –in- the- sky. The poor standard of living of the general populace has imposed unnatural curbs on the child’s playtime, curbing its most natural means of discovery, communication and expression.

Worse still, whatever toys/ games are grudgingly bought for the kids often constitute an unwise choice, not designed to keep up with the child’s widening horizon of knowledge and the simmering range of abilities. The common tendency of parents is to simply go to a toy shop, pick up something handy and cheap, and give it to their kid without bothering to find out whether it is suited to the age group to which the child belongs. More often than not, it is a spur of the moment decision a mere detraction the choice dictated by the price, availability and fun value. The intellectual level of the child, its aptitudes and inclinations, are never taken into account. The potential force of toys / games in moulding the character and temperament of the young ones never features in the scheme of things.

The libraries/ play centres set up by CHILDREN TOY FOUNDATION fight against this general tendency: of treating toys/ games as insignificant things, not worth more than a passing thought. The FOUNDATION believes in catching them young the young minds bubbling with enthusiasm for a variety of subjects and initiating natural development of their talents. On its own and through other lovers of toys/ games the FOUNDATION has been busy opening exciting opportunities to discover and experiment within today’s rapidly changing worlds of science, engineering, sports, arts, crafts, etc., from an early age. The toys choice today could decide the child’s tomorrow.

The FOUNDATION believes that today’s children are tomorrow’s pillars of strength; and hence anything done for them is never adequate enough.

This year as a short time goal we want to set up 3 libraries each in villages of Maharashtra and Gujrat.

Each library will cost 1.25 lacs which will include purchase of toys, transportation, training and 1-year supervision and training of the staff of the school in which library will be set up to make it self-sufficient