Non profit trust Pratham Books has launched DonateABook, a crowdsourcing platform which will let nonprofits and schools raise funding for books in order to provide them to Indian children. It will connect book seekers with people who have books to give away. As of now, there are 30 campaigns on the website, looking to raise between Rs 3,500- Rs 110,000 for multiple cities and towns in India. The projects have been assigned for underprivileged kids, kids from government schools in villages, immigrant construction workers’ children and more and will seek books across Indian and English languages. Individuals as well as organisations who would like to get books for the children they work with can also start campaigns on the platform. The platform seeks to get 50,000 books for children by this Children’s Day, which falls on 14 November every year. In order to register, users need to answer questions which include who they are, their organisation status and whether the organisation has 80G certification. Users can then fill in their campaign details and choose the number of books and the languages they want them in. Pratham Books will then send the books to the campaigner. Yayyy! So excited that we can finally share our newest platform : Donate-a-Book http://t.co/9QcXrNnEot #donateabook pic.twitter.com/4yH1d7ZqvK — Pratham Books (@prathambooks) June 24, 2015 Pratham Books claims that the campaign is verified in 2-3 working days and that it does not charge users or orgs to use the platform. The average duration of a campaign is 30 days…
