Peepal Chhaaya Nepal is a non-profit organization, created and registered in France after the second visit of its founder Inge Allard in the remote parts of Nepal. Librarian as profession and noticing the lack of cultural and educational structures in this area, the wish was to give a helping hand by providing local people with a community library, which would enable locals to fight illiteracy an
d better their everyday living through access to information and educational material to lift up their standard of living and bring them a brighter future. Thus Peepal Chhaaya aims at fighting illiteracy and developing access to educational and reading material as well as other useful information in remote and needy rural villages in mid-western Nepal by partnering with local communities and governmental bodies. Peepal Chhaaya's project is to help establishing a community library in Narayan municipality known as the headquarter of Dailekh District. This community library will adress all members of the village : illiterate or literate adults, schoolchildren and students, mums and any other person interested into reading. It will be managed by the locals in the mid and long-term. The main objective is thus to create a community library in Narayan municipality, based on popular involvement by the end of 2014. It will benefit 10% of the people at least by providing them with educational and useful material such as books, booklets, brochures and DVDs containing helpful information suitable to solve in a practical way the problems they are facing in their daily life. Workshops, meetings, literacy, language and IT-courses will complete the documentation.
