Book Drive to Kenya. May 2014

For the 2nd year in a row, New Dawn organized a Book Drive to build libraries in schools and community centers in Kenya.

Three huge boxes were placed in three different locations around Bahrain from May 1st to May 9th: Al Aali Shopping Complex, Riyadat Mall and AlOsra Supermarket in Amwaj where people were able to drop their books throughout the week.

In addition to that, three presentations about how books can change the life of Kenyan students were given by Nicola Miles from Charles & Rita Field-Marsham Foundation to Al Bayan school, Discover Islam Center and Zain Bahrain. We have also received hundreds of books from AlBayan School, Ibn Khuldoon School, Zain and Discover Islam.

On May 10th 2014, thousands of books were donated to our Book Drive which was held in Riyadat Mall for one whole day. Additional activities included a calligraphy corner (design your own bookmark), Storytelling corner by Hazawi and tea&bun package from Obun. All kinds of books were donated; kids books, text books, novels, magazines etc. Society members sorted out all the books which were shipped to Kenya free of charge by ARAMEX.

Over 5000 books were shipped in addition to school bags and stationary which was donated by Zain.