Kyras Book Bank Foundation

Kyras Book Bank Foundation is located up on the 6th floor of RNA Auroville. The flat number is 602. We are right on Jain Darasar Marg, just across from the Jain Temple. If you come by, you will see that the place is mostly filled with piles of books. We collect old textbooks, storybooks, and even notebooks that people don't need anymore. Then we sort through them to see what can be used again. Many families in this part of town have books sitting on shelves gathering dust, while other kids don't have a single book for school. We try to fix that gap. It is a lot of lifting heavy boxes and climbing stairs when the lift is busy. We don't have a fancy library system, just some shelves and a lot of floor space covered in paper. Our team is small, mostly just a few friends who like reading and hate seeing things go to waste. Sometimes people drop off books that are too torn to use, so we have to spend time taping them back together. The temple across the road is a good landmark for people trying to find us. We don't have any big funding. We just rely on what people give us. It gets a bit crowded in the flat sometimes, but seeing a kid get a book they actually wanted makes all the clutter feel okay. We stay open most afternoons.