By Ramamohan Rao Kakani | Secretary
Our “Little by Little” campaign was a grand success as 113 donors participated and contributed $7,560. Besides the matching grant we received a Bonus of $ 1,000 from Global Giving Foundation. We had, perhaps the largest number of 113 donors and 11 of them were Anonymous donors. Global Giving Foundation disbursed $10,420 (Rs.697,027) to us towards the end of May 2019. I once again take this opportunity to thank all donors and Global Giving Foundation for their generosity.
You may also please recall that I reported receiving a substantial donation of over Rs. 18 lakh in March 2019 through GiveIndia and Trent Ltd. We placed orders for 50 sets of 650 books from nearly 20 publishers in April as we had in stock 20 sets of books. Our volunteers have done a great job in putting together 66 sets of 650 books and dispatched them on time to the schools selected based on prescribed norms. In all, we have established 66 Children’s Libraries including two on behalf of Global Giving Foundation and two sponsored by another donor.
We have selected and purchased 40 new books to replenish existing BREAD Children’s Libraries. We are in the process of putting together 1,100+ packets of these 40 books to be dispatched to library schools by registered book post by the end of July 2019 or early August.
A team of office bearers of BREAD Society consisting of Secretary, Project Director and Chief Coordinator met Mrs. K Sandhya Rani, Commissioner, School Education, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh at Vijayawada. They explained the work done by BREAD in setting up 680 libraries in Govt. schools in Andhra Pradesh in the last ten years and requested her to issue instructions to follow BREAD Guidelines in operating BREAD libraries. She has since issued orders to RJDSEs and DEOs to direct BREAD Library schools to adopt BREAD Guidelines to operate its Libraries. Copy of proceedings attached. This places us in a much better position while interacting with library teachers and headmasters as we have the approval of the govt.
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