How to build 5 libraries in 2 weeks
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Unbelievably it only costs £1,250 to build, kit out, supply with books and staff a library in India (for TWO YEARS).
And you can buy a donkey or bicycle drawn library to travel around Africa for just £100. All of this comes from GoodGifts.org, a charitable organisation.
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We launched a Twitter campaign, aimed at librarians, to try and raise enough cash to do this.
So many libraries were closing aroundthat time: why not try and open one?
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Four of us came together to do this. We started a blog in January 2011, and began asking for donations.
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We gave the whole thing a hashtag:
#buyalib
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216 emailsabout theproject
Between us, we exchanged:
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10blogposts
We wrote:
these were viewed around 2,300 times
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resulting in 430 tweets
129 people tweeted using the hashtag
#buyalib
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controversythere was a little
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donated100 wonderful people
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The most common donation was a very generous
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In just two weeks we raised a spectacular…
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£2420!In just two weeks we raised a spectacular…
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HOW MUCH?!
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So what is happening now? The Rural Literacy & Health Programme in India are building an extra big library with more books, attached to a school on the edge of a slum in Mysore.
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And…The African Educational Trust have created FOUR donkey-drawn libraries to travel around Uganda, Somalia and Sudan.
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“The world is full of ambient goodness just waiting for the right idea to make it happen.”Andromeda Yelton
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And if buyalib proves anything else, it’s that social media is ace…
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thanks for listening!
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Images via: PhotofuniaStock XchangeIcon FinderGoodgifts
Read the Buyalib blog at:http://buyindiaalibrary.wordpress.com/
My own blog at:www.thewikiman.org
Or buy your own library! Via:www.GoodGifts.org