This beautiful 9-yr-old girl runs a library to educate underprivileged children in her slum

Muskaan Ahirwar, a 9-year-old girl is going viral on the Internet after opening a library for children called "Bal Pustakalay" in a small slum in Bhopal, India.

Every day, after school, she sets up the library outside her house, and the other children from the slums come over as she reads the stories out loud. Buzzfeed reported.

Recently, Room To Read, a non-profit organisation, recently tracked down her down and donated 50 of their original local language children’s books to Muskaan’s library.

On receiving the book from the NGO, Muskaan told Buzzfeed: “These are very colourful books. I liked all of them. The drawings in the books are very good and the words are written big”

She said that her favourite was a book called Chuhiya and Chidya. “I liked the story because even if the mouse and the sparrow are rude to each other, they don’t mind and still remain good friends. They keep helping each other.”

“In today’s world, education is important and so books are important. Education has a great role to play in our lives. When small children read, enjoy and laugh, I feel very happy. 20-25 children come to my library every day,” she added.

Proudly stating about her daughter, Maya Ahirwar, Muskaan's mother told Times of India, "We never thought her to be a name of change in society. We have two daughters and they extremely dedicated to their studies and towards making change."

Muskaan’s father Manohar Ahirwar is a carpenter and her mother Maya is a housewife.

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