Can’t think of a good use for your old and dusty
Westerns, Sidney Sheldon staples or those hard-to-giveaway classics?
Wishing for more room to accommodate new books you’ve been eyeing? In
that case, consider your problem solved.
Starting
today, ‘Books on Toast,’ a two-day book donation drive, will collect
books for a month and put them up for sale at a nominal cost on December
30. All the proceeds will go to a charity organisation, Teach For India
(TFI). The initiative has seen two events in Mumbai and one in
Bangalore.
Inspired by a local library in the United
States that raised funds for itself by holding book donation drives,
27-year-old freelance writer and social media consultant Anuya Jakatdar
decided to start something similar and ‘Books on Toast’ was born.
“I
ended up buying about 27 books for 10 dollars, and that too authors
like Stephen King, Gregory Maguire, John Irving et al. It was brilliant.
After I came back, I toyed with the idea of doing something similar
here, found friends willing to help out and then went ahead,” Anuya
says. The name, she says, was something they came up on a whim.
With
popular authors such as Samit Basu and Ashok Banker tweeting about
‘Books on Toast,’ donating books for charity has never been more fun. If
you’re thinking twice about giving away your books, you can still buy
different ones at inexpensive prices.
Books can be donated at drop-off points across the city. You can contact Vaishnavi Prasad at 98844 08574 for more information.
Check them out at https://www.facebook.com/
booksontoast
No comments:
Post a Comment