9-Year-Old Anaik Singh Impresses Ellen DeGeneres With His ‘Loving Library’
We know our desi kids are all heart. 9-year-old Anaik Singh is no different. When we saw him on ‘The Ellen Show’ talking about his ‘Loving Library’ we awwed along with the audience and our hearts swelled with pride.
Anaik Singh created a free library for people in need. As his family battled with COVID, this little boy realized that the pandemic also brought with it loneliness. COVID patients in hospitals and those quarantined at home could not meet people or interact as before. A great way to help them was to get them books that they could read and distract themselves. ‘Loving Library’ was born from this very idea.
It began with people isolated due to COVID and now expanding to help the homeless. This year it is running a donor book program for hospitalized COVID patients in underserved communities and for homeless patients at the ‘Circle the City,’ a medical homeless clinic.
The Loving Library aims to add a thousand books to its collection this year. On Ellen’s show, he said that they have already collected about 200 books. Singh wants to make sure that there are a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, mystery, books in languages like Spanish, some journals, and a lot more.
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While Ellen made sure that this little boy’s efforts were rewarded with a cheque of $15,000 from Five Below, we definitely think that our community can come together to support the cause even more.
Anaik puts in a lot of effort to make sure his donation campaign videos are interesting and catchy. Displaying his love of rap, he posts short videos to request donations for books and gives all the reasons that you definitely cannot say no to.
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Check out his Facebook fundraiser page to contribute to this great cause. You can also directly donate books to Loving Library at anaikslovinglibrary.org
And don’t miss the great artwork by our favorite illustrator Inkquisitive supporting Anaik!
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