DIYA HEGDE's Campaign To Educate Needy Kids By Building A Library.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Hi my name is Diya and I am a 10th grade student at DPS Whitefield. My name means God's Light and my dream is to light up the lives of all those who are underprivileged. My hobbies are playing basketball, dancing and creating things. I love to read, once I pick up a book I don't stop until its finished. That is why I chose to do this campaign so that I can give many more children the chance to understand the joy of reading. The libraries that will be established through this campaign will give millions of children access to books thereby good education and an opportunity to access the world. The fact that a contribution of just INR 5000/- can help establish a library and another INR 15000/- ensure it's smooth running through the year, made me realise that I must do something to help others I strongly believe that we can help those who are needy and in the process, transform their lives. Please support my campaign and let us bring the beautiful world of stories to these underprivileged kids.
Sanjukt, the Founder of The WALL O Books Project is an avid reader and has achieved much in life due to his passion for books. In his own words, Charles Dickens took him to London and then to Paris. The books gave him wings. Opened a window to the world. Gave him new ideas. The National Geographic took him to New Guinea. He wanted to go there. But soon after, he entered the portals of the Indian Institute of Technology and ironically stopped studying. But during those four (rather 5 years:) he read every issue of the National Geographic from 1947 to 1997 in the huge Central Library of IIT which had every book you can imagine, dusting away, in its long dark corridors. Life took over and he started doing more and more of other stuff.
Then, one ordinary day, in 2014 he happened to walk up to a shelter for vulnerable children and wondered - what is it like growing up within these dark and grey walls? He met Saina, an eight year old, and asked her what does she want to be when she grows up.
Millions of vulnerable children in India are growing up in a narrow world. Where hope is not even a four letter word. School is a window. Or is it just a door? For these children continue to stay only in the street next door.
In spite of everything that can go wrong and stay wrong around these children, books can transcend all that, protect them and help them grow.
For each of the 100 children covered by a WALL O BOOKS centre, the books they receive are often their first view of the world outside. All that is needed to form a WALL O BOOKS centre is just a wall, they put together a simple, cool and innovative bookshelf made out of an empty gunny bag on it, that can hold 100's of books.
Pic : This is how a WALL O BOOKS installation will look.
The kids built this entirely with their own hands. They even elected a little librarian and got their first taste of democracy :) There are no restrictions to when and how many books they can read. They can carry the books home. The little librarian ensured that no book gets lost. Saina is now the elected librarian of her Wall O Books.
Today, Wall O Books walks up to all kinds of places in India, collect 100 kids and help them build a hyper-cool Reading room of their own using just a wall - and so we call this a WALL O BOOKS. We equip it with a startup grant of 100 books ,a world map, a light bulb , a few more things and elect a little leader to run it.
Wallobooks have applied for the 80G tax benefit status and expect to get it by June. We will issue receipts for all funding to this campaign. If you are willing to wait till June 2018 we will be able to also generate receipts with a 80G Tax benefit.
The WALLOBOOKS Project has now become a powerful Not for Profit movement of hope to give every vulnerable child in India direct access to a simple library+laboratory. Designed, built and managed by children living and growing up in the bottom of the pyramid communities, 170 centres so far in 4 states across India give 50000+ children an amazing new way to discover, learn & have fun. And an opportunity to shape their own future.
The vision is to build 10,000 WALLOBOOKS around India to ensure that no child at the bottom of the pyramid is left behind. In 2018 we are on a mission to build 100 WALLOBOOKS in each state of India.
Fueladream charges 10% as crowdfunding charges. There is a payment gateway fee of 2% (for both the Indian and foreign gateway) plus a GST component of 2.16%. This adds up to 14.16%. There is also an initial fee of 3000 INR which is being waived for us.
It takes upto 2-3 weeks after the campaign is closed for the monies to be transferred to Wall O Books. The receipts will start getting processed about 4 to 6 weeks AFTER the campaign is closed and will be sent to you directly.
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We are a Section 8 Not for Profit. We are aggressively chasing Section 80 certification and will have it in place very soon. Once we receive our 80G certificate only then onwards can we issue the 80G tax exemption receipts but unfortunately not for now.
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