Lotus Petal:
The Lotus Petal Charitable Foundation focuses on providing exemplary education, nutritious
meals,
healthcare facilities and skill development to underprivileged children living in urban and
semi-urban areas, through
their school at Dhunela, Haryana. We have helped build their new library from scratch, with a
donation of more than 800
books.
Sarvahitey:
Sarvahitey is an NGO run by a large group of young adults coming together from different
professions, working with
Corporate and Government institutions for their mission to provide employable skills to 10,000
students through their
Project 'Vidya Vistar', and set up 1000 libraries by end of 2025 through Project 'Paper Bridge’.
With this NGO, we also
kickstarted our campaign for books for adults to encourage the reading habit across age groups.
For Sarvahitey, our
volunteers have collected more than 1500 books for libraries across India, especially Kashmir
and Manipur.
Andhra Education Society:
Andhra Education Society is a 75-year old Society founded to provide facilities for
imparting
and promoting education of Telugu (a regional Indian language) among Telugu People living in
Delhi. Now it provides
Telugu as well as English education in five schools in Delhi. Our team helped donate 500 books
to the library of one of
the schools. We are also helping the librarian with recommendations on age-wise/ grade-wise
books that the library
should house.
Har Nand Rai and Chhotu Ram Rathee Friendship Memorial Trust:
This is a family run Trust that has sent up schools for girls across rural areas of Haryana.
In order to encourage these
girls to develop their reading skills in English, we have been regularly sharing age appropriate
books to encourage
them.
Sarvam Foundation:
Sarvam Foundation is a well-known name in the Indian arts circles for promoting and
perpetuating India's artistes and
art forms through innumerable creative events and collaborations. Sarvam Shakti, its non-profit
organization for women,
dedicated to empowering women through education, healthcare, and skill trainings, supports 300
marginalized girls in 3
Indian states in various dance forms. We, at Books&Beyond, are helping them regularly to
collected pre-loved dance
costumes and accessories. The NGO organizes for English speaking classes, and helps educated
girls acquire jobs such as
teaching interns at schools. For the interns, Books & Beyond helps collect formal attire, Indian
as well as Western,
watches, handbags etc.
