Donate a Book to your school and Book Bank To facilitate the collection of reading materials and to bring books to those who do not have access to libraries or the privilege of owning books, UNESCO has launched in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development the Donate a Book to your school campaign in schools all over the country to develop a bank of books within the schools and outside. This campaign will be launched in conjunction with the "Book Bank" scheme which will collect books from the general public at selected centres. Books are necessary to enhance education of children and should be widely available in every school library. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF, 2005), an advisory document, intended to guide the formulation of curricula across schooling systems, noted that efforts are required for preparing more learning resources for children, especially books and reference materials in regional languages, for school and teacher reference libraries. Through this initiative we hope to both increases the strength of books in the school libraries, as also build book banks that would receive voluntary donations. The supplementary collection of books would thereafter be donated to NGOs and schools in order to enable children to have access to additional reading material. Simultaneously, the Initiative will also promote reading habits and literature appreciation in children. UNESCO will also use its network of UNESCO Clubs and Associated Schools Project, to implement this project. The initiative aims to build a bank of books and reference material for schools across the country both in national and regional languages. The initiative particularly aims to address the following objectives: # Increase the available books and reference material in schools and resource centres # Encourage reading habits among children # Encourage Literature Appreciation in schools # Facilitate the creation of mobile book libraries and mobile schools # Encourage local commitment to stronger community ties We invite children, parents, teachers, citizens, publishers, corporate houses and NGOs, to join hands with us in this initiative! To start with you can participate by donating a book in good shape that you don’t read anymore. For further information contact: Ms. Shaguna Gahilote Project Officer for Culture s.gahilote[at]unesco.org Source: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12102&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.