Books distribution at ZP Girls High School, Kavali

On 27 June,2009 Baasata Society has distributed around 1000 notebooks to over 225 students at ZP Girls High School, Sivalayam Street, Kavali.

Why did we Distribute books?
Students in ZP Girls High School belong to socially backward communities. Parents of the Girl students work as coolies, rickshaw pullers and do other forms of daily labour with which they hardly survive a day. Many of the Girl students who study at this school stay in BC,SC,ST Hostels. Their parents from Rural areas around Kavali and Jaladanki join them at the hostel so that they can save their daily expenses. It was really pathetic to know that few of their parents just join those students in Hostel and never come back or care about them. Having heard many tough facts from the students and school teachers, we analyzed the data we collected. The basic problem with the school is that the students are in short of the basic necessity, the notebooks and stationery. The Government are providing textbooks and All-In-One's for the students, but they could not afford notebooks. We had many rounds of discussions with school teachers and our members. We finally concluded on distributing the notebooks to the students.

Identification of Deserving students

School teachers especially English teacher Purnima took an active role in identiying the deserving students. We formulated an easy identification process. We took the details of deserving students from school teachers, then based on the details we shortlisted the students list.

In total we identified 200 students out of 350 students in that school.
6 books per student resulted in total number of books as (200*6=) 1200.

Every Penny is valuable
It's time to find a best deal to purchase 1200 notebooks of 180 pages each.

Initially we talked to many whole sale book distributors, we got a best deal of Rs.14/- per book which are very good in quality. Our members agreed on that price and we were about to make the order.
You can find the link to the Orkut thread here where we mentioned about this event and we were in short of money to purchase 1200 books

But our members Naveen Kumar S and Mahesh tried hard, communicated with book manufacturers and got the deal for Rs.10.5/- per book which resulted in Rs.12,600/-. The quality of the books are very good. Here our members have saved an amount of Rs.4200/-. The commitment of our members is not just to serve the society but to account for every penny of donation. Save at one end and help at the other.

Distribution of the Books
Finally the day has arrived. Neither did we wait for any weekend so that all of our members would gather to distribute the books nor did we plan some great event. Mahesh and Naveen distributed the books smoothly to the list of identified students.

Few of the students who have already purchased some books volunteered themselves not to take some books. Its really a good gesture from their end. We distributed over 1000 notebooks to over 225 students. We are still left with 180-190 books and we are in process of identifying a deserving school in extending our support to the needy students.

We thank all the teachers and members who worked together in making this event successful. We appreciate the donors who are always a step ahead to our expectations.
Thanks all for everything.

We are in touch with the students and teachers of ZP Girls High School and will organize career awareness camps. We promised to help the students for their higher studies if they pass with flying colors.




Note from Headmaster of the school


Mahesh Distributing the notebooks to the students