Book Drive!!

Look around your house. Are there books that you don't really read anymore? Is a book teaching you the alphabet popping out? The school year has probably ended and you're faced again with a pile of books you no longer need. For those who aren't book collectors or pack-rats, why don't you organize a book drive? If you need them for more years to come, keep them. If you're way over the A-B-C or 1-2-3 years, let go. That way, you can help your local public school and even have more space in your room!

Here are some ideas on how you can have your own book drive:

Small Scale

• People you might need to contact: the school you want to donate to and some friends to help you out
• What you might need: boxes or plastic bags
• How? Call the school you're interested in donating to. Tell them that you are interested in donating some books. Then check your textbooks. After you've pretty much collected a lot, bring them all to the school.

Big scale

• People you might need to contact: the school you're donating to, your school's student council, and your school administrators.
• What you might need: a formal proposal to your school administrators and boxes
• How? Work with your student council and talk to your school administrators. Tell them about your plans and they could probably help you find a school to donate to. Once approved, you could put boxes all over campus so students can just drop them off. Don't forget to make an announcement in school!

Even bigger!

• People you might need to contact: the school you're donating to, your baranggay SK chairman or captain, and some neighbors to help you out.
• What you might need: flyers, posters, and boxes.
• How? Contact your baranggay official and tell them about your plans. Once approved, have volunteers help in making posters, announcements, and delivering the books. Leave flyers in the mailboxes telling them to drop by your baranggay hall and drop off their donations.

Make sure your monitor your progress and check that your donations are put to good use, not just kept at a bodega or something!

Other ideas: clothing drive, shoe drive, tsinelas drive

If you decide to try these ideas, don't forget to tell us how it goes! :)