NEG-FIRE's Treasure House is an innovative, community-based intervention, which aims at ensuring that every single child living in the remotest of locations across India has access to a safe, child-friendly place where they can learn, be with other children, instill in themselves values of diversity and have immense self-belief. It further supplements education, and stimulates not only local culture and tradition but also provides exposure to mainstream education thus creating an interest to continue or pursue formal education.
While objects on display are kept on the space close to the wall and some are hung from the ceiling like flash cards, chart sheets, playing material, musical instruments, local seeds, tribal/local artifacts, drawings, paintings, crafts and paper mache made by children etc.; the middle of the room is used for organizing various sessions on storytelling, painting, khel se mel activities, supplementary education and other activities. Some of the Treasure House tools, library books, playing material etc. are also kept in steel or wooden boxes placed in the Treasure House.
By appearance, the room looks like a multi-purpose space for children, which conveys a sense of childhood exuberance. With so many objects on display and space for various activities, the Treasure House arouses interests of children for activities that are mostly beyond their regular school curriculum.