Title: Library, but a human version! - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: What strikes your mind, when you hear the term “library”? Well, library is the assemblage that accommodates books, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, documents and so forth. These collections cover widely in size upto millions of items, including humans. Human library encompasses human beings as books. Shocked? All have heard of digital library and audio library, but not of human library. Basically, The Human Library is an international organisation inspired by the American Stop the Violence Movement. It’s main objective was to address people who have gone through a great deal of prejudices and stigmatization that often leads to social exclusion. Like books, real humans are borrowed in human library by readers. It intends to mould one’s personality through informal chatting with the people mentioned above. The Hindu newspaper refers people as living books in Human Library. In India, it is seen in Delhi, Surat, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. – PowerPoint PPT presentation