Nonprofit Organization Management - Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
পড়ুয়া - The Reader, an initiative by Light of Hope, aims to increase children's creativity and power of imagination by giving access to story, science and other non-academic books at the underprivileged primary schools in Bangladesh. Also trying to make sure that all the schools of Bangladesh have a library on there campus.We are collecting old story books by arranging campaigns at the college and universities in the cities. We are also collecting story books and children magazine from various development organizations. Through social media we are also collecting story books from individual.All the collected books come to our storage where we sort out the books according to age, fixing torn books and create a database of book donors so that we can keep a track where these books are going.We then select individual primary schools, discuss with them about the operation and maintenance of the library. We prioritize the rural primary schools where most of the children are from underprivileged family background. - Library established: 81- Book and magazines collected/donated: 15600- Number of students having access to story books: 19400Our Target:Our initial target is to collect 100,000 books and build 500 libraries all over the country within next 5 years.- Collection of 100,000 story books and children magazine- Establish 500 libraries at 500 rural primary schools- About 50,000 students will have access to story books every year