Giving Back
Some members of our communities are unable to visit libraries. We are constantly working with Charities, Support Groups and Local Hospitals - we want to ensure that all sectors of the community, irrespective of age, gender or background, have access to home-country media.
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We donate a large number of multi-cultural books to Oxfam's Huddersfield Book Depot each year. These are then distributed to Oxfam's 'diverse community' shops across the UK, not only raising funds, but also encouraging communities to use the stores.
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In 2010 we provided multi-cultural media in 6 Indic languages to setup an in-house library at Age Concern Leeds. We are working to replicate this initiative at other branches.
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We are currently financing a not-for-profit startup in Calcutta to produce Audio CD versions of classic Indic texts. These will be of great use to the visually impaired or to those with limited literacy abilities.
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We are currently setting up a library for parents visiting at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. We are also consulting with the NHS in Yorkshire and Lancashire to setup in-ward libraries of multi-cultural media (books, magazines and DVDs) for in-patients.
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Based in Leeds, Dosti offers a supportive environment for Asian women with mental health issues. We have provided enough multi-cultural media to setup a library to accommodate the needs for all their community sectors. We will continue to work with Dosti, in particular with the supply of Indic 'self-help' media.
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Based in Leeds, Shantona aims to bring about social change and justice by promoting health awareness, reducing social exclusion and broadening access of health services. We have recently setup a Bengali media library at Shantona, and hope to expand the stock with further donations in 2010.
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We are keen to support further charitable causes in the above manner. Each year, we aim to donate multi-cultural media to the value of 20% of our profits.
If you would like to receive donated books (Indic languages), please drop us a few lines at community@booksasia.co.uk. Let's discuss how we can help.
