In some parts of Spain, it is an old tradition to give a rose and a book to one another on St. George's Day, which is celebrated on 23 April UNESCO declared this day as the WORLD BOOK DAY. In the U.K. also people started to celebrate the World Book Day. The day is also Shakespeare's birthday. Because the date clashed with school holidays the Book Day in UK is celebrated on 1st. March. The day is celebrated throughout the country to promote books and reading. The Book Publishers and charities support the World Book Day with a range of programmes. While in the western countries books are a normal part of life, in many developing countries books are scarce. Education Aid takes surplus books from schools, colleges, universities, libraries, hospitals, publishers and companies and sends them to developing countries. Tons of books are sent to overseas countries every year.

On the World Book Day, you can help Education Aid by organising events such as a charity raffle or sponsored read. Students and/or staff can help Education Aid to buy some books

Sponsored Read
A Sponsored read is good way of not only promoting reading in children but also adults can catch up with those books which they always wanted to read but never had the time to do so. Organise a 'Group Read', and have people reading parts from their favourite books. Invite a celebrity, an author or the school/college head or company executive can introduce their favourite books. The 'read' can be sponsored per page or per minute.

Book Sale
School or college students or their parents can put their surplus books in a book bank and hold a sale. For example a sale can be organised by a member of the staff in a school/college. A spare room should be set-aside for the purpose. The sale should commence a week or two before the World Book Day and may culminate with some other event on the day itself e.g. a 'Group read '. The parents may hold a car boot sale of books.

Surplus Books.
The Librarians and Book Publishers should take a look at their present stock and dispose off their overstocked, review copies and older editions. Such books may still be useful to many people in the developing countries. Instead of leaving those books on the shelves for later sending them to pulp why not do something for the World Book Day and send them to Education Aid.

You can of course organise other activities to mark the World Book Day and we will welcome any contribution you can make to help in the good cause of Education.

Further information can also be found at
www.worldbookday.com
www.bbc.co.uk/education

Thank you for helping Education Aid on the World Book Day.

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