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India Bound: Community Activist Teams with Library, Shipping Company to Send Books to Children
Over 500 books will be sent to school children in Mumbai, India after a Ridgewood activist organized an initiative to help English literacy along with the help of the Ridgewood Public Library and shipping company DHL Express
Over 20 kids, staff members of the Ridgewood Public library and employees of shipping giant DHL Express loaded over 500 books into boxes Thursday, the packages bound for Mumbai, India.
Two schools in the poverty-stricken slums of Mumbai will be receiving the 55-box shipment, valued at around $2,000. The books will be the first English language books the students will likely have read outside the classroom.
Ridgewood resident Nat Mohan is credited with spearheading the effort, which began with his goal to increase literacy in India through the Teach for India initiative, a two-year teaching abroad mission. Mohan approached the library for assistance and library staff responded by hosting a community book drive during the past month.
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DHL will be shipping the books free of charge.
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