Hindustan Times launches programme for underprivileged children

New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) English daily newspaper Hindustan Times said Thursday it has launched an initiative which will help in education of over 1 million underprivileged children in the national capital region.

As part of the "You Read, They Learn" initiative launched on April 18, Hindustan Times has committed to contributing 5 paise from every metro copy in Delhi-NCR for the scheme, Hindustan Times said in a statement.

To build on that initiative, Hindustan Times printed a beginner's textbook in every copy of the newspaper in Delhi-NCR Thursday.

In line with the initiative's mission to help educate underprivileged children, every page of the newspaper includes a page of a textbook. Following three simple steps, readers can cut out these pages, staple them together to form a textbook and then share it with an underprivileged child, it said.

In addition, there will be textbooks inserted in copies of Mint and Hindustan circulated in Delhi-NCR.

"Through this simple and powerful idea, readers will be able to reach out to over 1 million children in Delhi-NCR on a single day and help them take their first step towards an education," the newspaper said.