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Notebook Drive(NBD) in Karnataka

Dear Friends,

My company is already participating in this drive. I saw this on my company news board and since most of us are already involved in such activities, I decided to take this up too. Just like what we contributed for Gujarat Earthquake fund, pl. come forward and help on this too. This time, I am in India and I am more confident than ever that we, together, can make a big and meaningful difference for our country.

Here is an attempt towards helping under-privileged students in the Govt. Schools of Karnataka.
   
There are around 49,000 Govt. schools in Karnataka each having about 100 under-privileged students. Government aims at providing mid-day meals, uniforms & textbooks to these students.  Yet, the lack of support towards notebooks affects them. With at least 5 notebooks for each of them, we would need more than 2.5 crore notebooks.

Here is a drive towards collecting notebooks for these students. Liberally donate notebooks towards this cause and be part of the drive.

For more information, feel free to communicate with the contacts mentioned below.

Let us join hands and take a step towards a brighter tomorrow.

I am planning to buy and collect notebooks over the next one month. Meanwhile, I also plan to talk to govt. school headmaster and identify the needy students. The dealine I have set is Indian Independence Day Aug 15th and will pass on all our donations on Aug 15th 2002 to the needy students.

If you are not living in bangalore, but if you are interested to help the notebook drive, please pass on your donations, notebooks through your friends are relatives. Please note that, we prefer notebooks only. All cash donations will be used towards purchase of notebooks.

Enquiries may be sent to : help_educate_children@yahoo.co.in

Thank you very much,

Chandrashekar.

Here are some FAQs

1. Whats Notebooke drive (NBD) ?
    We donate notebooks to under-previleged school children in the  govt. schools of Karnataka.

2. Why we, whats the Govt. doing :-)
    Well, lets be pragmatic, and try to reach the needy students. The Govt. has programmes for providing textbooks, uniforms & mid-day meals.

3. Any target of the number of notebooks to be collected by us ?
    We would need 2.5 crore books to reach to all schools in the state.  Right now, we give our best, and collect as much as possible, lets go all out.

4. 2.5 crore, how ?
    We have 49,000 govt. schools, assuming atleast 100 needy kids, and  5 books for each.

5. Whoz spearheading this campaign ?
    SAFE - State Alliance for Education -a group of activists & NGO's  working on ensuring quality elementary education for all. The state convenor of SAFE is KC Venkatesh, whoz also a director of Paraspara Trust (more on SAFE in another mail).

6. How can I donate?

Donate notebooks. (preferably newly bought ones. Please keep in mind that the child receiving it should benefit ultimately. In case you
   are donating used ones, please make sure it is in good condition after removing the used portions of the notebook.)
   Drop them at my house or send it thru your friends. Company notebooks will not be accepted.

7. How would the volunteer go 'bout.
* Collect the notebooks donated
* Collect the money and buy the notebooks

8. What happens after collection ?
     Two options.

      1. We pass them on to SAFE who would pass it on to various schools.
      2. If there are interested juntha with you, contact some govt. school nearby, talk to the headmaster, ask him to identify the needy kids, and pass the books to them.

9. What kind of notebooks ?
    New notebooks are prefered.
    Well, lets have the simple school notebooks - ruled preferable - of  the Lekhak variety, and not the long ones.

10. Income Tax certificate ?
      For those interested donating in large numbers - more than 100 books - 80G of the income Tax Act certificate is available if necessary from SAFE/Paraspara.

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