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Charity Bazaar
   
 

Good Books Shouldn’t Be Lonely, Pass Them On!

The Yu-Tsai Bookworms were trying their best to emulate Small Small Bookshop and promote reading in the community. We were trying to introduce a love of reading to all of the students and teachers in our school. Then we wanted to extend our reach into the community with the second-hand book sale.
Through this activity, we hope that everyone can find books that they like and get into reading.

Charity Sale

Date：12/23/2012
Place：New Taipei City Library – Yonghe Branch
Attendees：Principal Tang, Directors, Head of Library, Teachers, Parents,Cyberfair Team, Volunteers and Members of the Community.

Event

Decorating the Area

As soon as we got there, everyone got busy setting up the tables in an M-shape. Then we set up the books in different sections based on value. After a messy start, we got the whole place set up and ready for the customers!

Charity Sale

When everyone was in place, the second-hand book sale was formally under way! In order to let the local community know about the activity, the Bookworms split into promotional teams! We went to supermarkets, librarys, parks and even the streets and alleys nearby to pass on the news.
After walking around promoting, people started to come in droves to find books that suit them. We hope the low prices of the books can give everyone as chance to find books that they like.

Handing out Library Cards

During the event, the director of the library came especially to hand over the library cards for our classmates. He said “ After you get these, you will have a whole lot more books that you can read!”

A Perfect Ending

As the event was finishing, it came to a perfect ending! Books found new owners, our classmates discovered new books, and the community got another chance to read. It was a great day!

  

Bookworm Says：
In order for an event to ber successful, one can’t rely on only one person. This charity sale was a success because everyone worked together. We should also thank God for giving us such great weather!

After watching the Reading for Hope film, we decided to help the kids in the mountain areas, so we held a second-hand books charity bazaar. We let all the student in Yu-Tsai donate the books that they don’t need anymore, at the last, we achieved almost 2,000 books! That day at the second-hand charity bazaar, some student and I went to the market to spread our activity out to all the citizens. Afterwards, a lot of friends and neighbor came to cheer us up, this made us more confident. This activity really is a memorable memory!


During these activity, I felt very excited, because a few days before, we began to prepare collect books, cleaning the covers. In the activity, I was responsible for the market and spoke in Taiwanese to invited the neighborhood to come to our activity. It was really fun experience. This activity was also very successful. I hope to have opportunity to also be able to do it again as this was a meaningful activity.

Source : Yu-Tsai Bookworms