Book Saving Campaign 2012

Introduction

Bookmandu-Nepal is a non-profit making, non-governmental organization established in 2012. The organization was registered in CDO Kathmandu in 2012 and affiliated with Social welfare council. The vision of the organization is to “to provide the quality education for all”. Thus it emphasizes on the overall education system of Nepal. As a guiding philosophy, the organization focused on improvement educational society of Nepal. The people that benefited from our activities achieved the high level awareness and empowerment and contributing in the field of social development and self reliance for themselves as well through the medium of quality education. Since its establishment, this organization has been conducting various social development projects, programme, and other social and educational activities in Ichangu Narayan Village Development Committee.

 Background

In our pursuit of education, we use books- a lot of it. But often, after we earn our educational certificates, these books often end up occupying our shelves idly.  Recognizing that these books can really help in changing the lives of others, Bookmandu has been formed. We plan to collect books from donors, through our network of volunteers, and circulate to those who are in need. Bookmandu is a platform for those potential volunteers, who think that books can be shared and exchanged to those who are in need. Our aim is to make a functioning network of donors and receivers of unused books that are stored idly in homes or sold for a few rupees without knowing its actual value. Our main approach is to make full utilization of such books, by making a collection center and encouraging people to contribute books, which are going to be donated across schools and colleges in rural areas of Nepal. Our efforts will be directed towards utilizing the capacity of Kathmandu and use it as a knowledge bank of books and educational materials. We are launching two programs soon, which are “BOOKS FOR BOOKS” within the Kathmandu valley and “YOUR CONTRIBUTION, OUR BRIGHT FUTURE” project in specific rural villages in Nepal.

Justification of the programme 

Just like a child needing a helping hand to take its first step, Bookmandu requires support from the public to continue its efforts for meaningful results. We want to create and nurture a culture of book donation in Nepal. Our dream project is to make Kathmandu city, an open library where people needing books aren’t refused the knowledge, just because of their weak economic situation as well as to help the student of remote area of Nepal. We are the young youth group who involved in Ngo sector to help the students like us who have a great potential in the field of education. In the mean time many students facing difficulties to get further study due to the lack of educational material like book, copies pen and pencil, so we take initiative to provide them the educational material thus they can continue their further study which help to decrease the number of drop out in schools colleges and university likewise we are also focus on cultural exchange of the student across the country although many students are deprived from quality education our motto is to provide them the quality education through educational materials and volunteers teachers who have high devotion in teaching and by alternative education is the major part of our project which provide  practical knowledge to the students of Nepal because all most Nepalese student are facilitated with the theoretical knowledge only which later hamper on their carrier development and also effects  in sustainable educational development of Nepal with this prospective Bookmandu Nepal conducted the three days "Book saving campaign " in Ichangu Narayan Village development committee in April  7,8 and 9/2012 and successfully collected more then one thousand books.The reason behind this campaign is to save the books and copies from selling and developing the habit of donating.

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Bookmandu had conducted an awareness campaign for preserving books and donating it to needy or Bookmandu itself rather than selling it to the KAWADIS. Though the campaign was conducted in a small area “Ichangu-Gairi Gaun with Mahila Jagriti Aama Samuha”, the outcome was quite fruitful. All the mothers at Aama Samuha promised to provide us the knowledgeable books that they had rather than selling them away.

Similarly from 2068/12/25 to 2068/12/27, a three day long program had been conducted by Bookmandu with a joint collaboration of students from nearby schools and Bookmandu team with a huge support of public. The events conducted in the program are listed as below.

                        

 2068/12/25      : Sanitation Program

 2068/12/26      : Home to Home Awareness.

 2068/12/27      : Interaction class.

• Sanitation Program:  

Three days event was basically based on preserving the available resources and keeping the environment of the city clean and green. It was conducted from Ichangu to Thulobharayang. Volunteers, specially students from Mahamanjushree Higher Secondary School, Green Kantipur Higher Secondary School, Reed Model School etc. marched together holding the slogan “By students for Students, Make city clean and green, Let’s not pollute the city, let’s preserve it” etc. Volunteers collected the litters and filths at Thulobharayang community. And at the end of the program, books were donated to the Bookmandu by Mr. Roshan Ghimire and Mr. Sushanta Dahal along with a few inspirational talks about value of books and education by Teachers of REED MODEL SCHOOL.

• Home to Home Awareness Program: 

It was conducted for collecting the used books that are just occupying the space of bookshelves from the public. We went to almost 70 houses for collecting books. The people also showed a positive response towards collecting such books and making them aware about the importance of knowledgeable books. Different banners and play cards were also displayed at this event. This program was also fruitful because of the active participation of our volunteers.

• Interaction Class: 

It was held at different schools. Principal and Vice Principal of Reed Model School gave an inspirational lecture about the books and their importance in making a person desirable to sustain in this competitive world, difficulties in publishing the books, the misuse of the books by students and many more. The students also shared their experiences in this 3 day program. Mr.Khemlal, the Principal of Reed model school gave a positive response towards our activities and awarded the volunteers with a certificate of appreciation.

Participate schools 

Maha Manju Shree Higher Secondary School            

Green Kantipur Public School.

Reed Model English School.

The Excelsior School.

Namgayal English School.