BOOK-AID FIRST MEGA PROJECT BLOG

OUR IDEA

Books help Peoples make sense of the world around them, impart morals and values to them, and teach the difference between right and wrong. Moreover, children who can’t read are unable to learn and this impacts their schooling.

When you donate your books, you allow the opportunity to let those texts have new life. Whether they end up in the hands of a young teen looking for an exciting new story to read, or they become part of a collection on someone else’s shelf, donating your books expands their purpose and influence in a fascinating way

We want to organize a platform for all students by exchanging their books or by giving their books to the needy ones. We want to give us a platform by creating a Facebook/Instagram page and also make a database on excel by using this database and our Facebook page so we can connect the donor and the receiver. so they can further communicate at their convenience. Through this process, all members give their best to maintain a record by using excel databases and we will start on a very small scale. This is something very helpful for all those students who need a variety of books and also for those students who like to share their learning with their fellows as well.

OUR BOOKS:

Most used book donations are gladly accepted. Donate used baby books and children’s books. Donate used textbooks, like law books or medical books, so that students in a tight financial situation can keep up with their studies. Donate mystery novels. Donate science fiction books. Donate fine literature. Donate foreign-language books and guides. Donate technical books. Donate how-to and do-it-yourself manuals. Donate travel guides, travel books, and travel essays. Donate dictionaries and encyclopedias. Donate science books. Donate high school and college books

In this regard, we have started to generate collections of books.

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues and many of us are seeking entertainment also it plays a vital role to engage students while staying home, reading offers some respite. It helps to inspire students to do hard work with courage and hope and also develops analytical skills.

We all have a variety of books on different topics. We all read them once and put them back on our shelves. In our Society, Many students are unable to afford books and couldn’t grab learning opportunities. We can be a bridge for these students by providing them a platform where they can get free books.

OUR AIM

Our goal is to facilitate the needy students in the pandemic situation by providing them used books so they can easily learn without investing money in their books. We selected our target to provide a minimum of 100 books to the students.

We want to facilitate many students. That’s why we are providing an easy way of delivering and collecting books. To improve the user experience our goal is to increase the number of book donors and for this, we are expanding our social media presence.

Our target is to facilitate the needy students with the books as well as we use old books because old books are having extra notes written on them which help the students who are willing to study.

OUR PLAN

To plan the execution of our idea we concluded that it has three parts;

1. Collection of the Books.
2. Data Management and Sorting.
3. Delivery of the Books.

For the first part, we plan that first we provide a donation form (link) to the donors , after filling the donation form we get their address and then we provide the nearest drop-off location to the donor so they can drop those books there.

For the second part, we plan to collect the data from the donor; for security purpose we ask for basic information e.g. name, CNIC no., address, for books management and record keeping we ask for basic information of the books e.g. book names, no. of books, for sorting of the books we ask for condition of the books e.g. rate the condition, genre of the books.

For the third part, we plan to make ads on the Facebook page for every book and if anyone needs that book they contact us and get the book. Furthermore, if any of the book is not donated there then we donate it to the Alamgir Trust, schools or any organization who work in that genre.

Working and Progress:

We set the targets/goals for the coming weeks. Below is the Gantt Chart of the goals and documentation.

Week # 1

In the first week, we divided our tasks into seven categories among our group individuals. The tasks were related to marketing strategies, making pages on social media and their settings, designing flyers, posters, farms (collection, delivery, and customer feedback), excel sheets for collection and delivery, and making contact with the sponsorship organization. The following tables describe tasks assigned to each individual.

Moreover, we divided our organization into six main domains or departments.

1. Customer Care Head: Should interact with customers regarding information and donations and taking feedback and complaints from the donors and acceptors. Connected with the C&D Confirmation Team, Donation & Resources Team.
2. Social Media Page Handling Head: Should handle and update Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn pages, and postings. Three posts per week should be mandatory. Connected with the marketing team.
3. Collection & Delivery Confirmation Head: Maintain the data regarding the collection and delivery of the books and generate trends of growth of declination. Connected with the Customer Care Team, Marketing.
4. Industrial Liaison Head: Contact organizations and industries for sponsorship, donations, and collaboration. Connected with the Donation and Resources Team.
5. Marketing Head: Should make strategies on marketing and advertising and work on the trends which are useful for growth and develop and use resources that are useful for growth. Connected with the Collection and Delivery Confirmation Team, Social Media Handling Team.
6. Donation and Resources Head: Keep the data of the donation and sponsorship which was collected from the industries and organizations/ peoples. A weekly report of the total donation collected. Connected with the Industrial Liaison Team, Customer Care Team, Marketing Team.

We planned to complete the initial work before launching the idea. As mentioned earlier, our idea deals with three parts; the first is collecting the books, the second is data collection and the last is a donation. As described earlier, the basic initial documentation and design were completed in our first week.

Week #2

After that, we want to connect more and more people and for this, we want more and more Facebook followers. For getting followers we make a functional video of our process in which we describe our whole process so donators get the full awareness of our organization and do not hesitate to donate their books to us. The video is given below:

Video Here: Link

Then we design some posters in which we target emotional attachment and make the donors feel good when they donate to us. The posters are given below:

After designing these posters and making videos we set the goals for every week as mentioned in the timeline table. We set the following goals for the first two weeks after uploading the posters and pages:

1. Get up to 250 likes on our Facebook page.
2. Get up to 100 followers on our LinkedIn page.
3. Get donations of at least 30 books.

Now we are working on these goals and achieving good results. The results which we achieved in one week is given below:

1. Gain 154 likes on our Facebook page
2. Gain 18 followers on our LinkedIn page
3. Get 16 books as donations.

We are still working and doing everything to make this organization successful.