I am an advent reader since my childhood and always love to get books as a gift!!! Similarly I know, many of you are also like me?.But I also know that we throw away many books after few years as we grow up and certain category of children books become redundant in our book shelves?.This is very common to my friend?s circle and I thought of re-using those books in place of simply throwing them away?.

Since last one year, I was collecting such redundant but good quality books meant for the children (story books, educational books etc) from my friend circle and this time when I went to India for summer vacation, I packed those books into a big box and carried to india..

At my mother?s place (Howrah, India), ?Anath Bandhu Samity?  is a charitable organization which provides free nursery schooling to the nearby slum children who are not only underprivileged, but also don?t have access to good quality books written in English. The school is run by a group of volunteers who decided to give back something to the society. Each year I visit this school and offer whatever I can during my stay.

This year I carried those books for the children and to my surprise, they were very very delighted to see those glossy coloured booked which immediately attracted them?I will cherish their million dollar smiles on their faces for a longtime? I also shared few very simple tips for saving water like close the water tap when not in use etc so that they can become consious about environment from the very early stage of their lives...I felt very happy that in one way, this effort not only helped in reinforcing the concept of reusing, but also at the same time it benefited to a section of our society?