How the founders of community libraries for children are raising money during the pandemic Mridula Koshy, who conceptualised The Community Library Project in Delhi-NCR, explains the principles and the plans. Before the pandemic: Child readers of The Community Library Project If you follow The Community Library Project on social media, or even if you’ve chanced across Michael Creighton’s poignant essay for this series in August, you’d know that this year has been a particularly difficult one for this citizen-led free library project. To navigate through 2021, to raise funds in order to rebuild two of their four libraries in Delhi-NCR, to run their remotely conducted Reading Fluency programmes and to sustain their online WhatsApp library, Duniya Sabki, TCLP is organising a fundraiser, the Free Library Festival 2020.