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Please help us at Ganesha Bookshop to support local schools and libraries in Bali by donating books from our website. Our aim is to foster literacy, learning and a love of reading throughout the Balinese Community. Customers can purchase books at the store or on-line (click here) and ask for the purchase to be donated to the school or library of their choice. We recommend dictionaries, picture books, stories, folktales and children's books for ages 4 to 12 years. We have a selection of bilingual (Indonesian/English), Bahasa Indonesian and English books from which to choose. We are currently donating books to:
New SD3 Pejeng Elementary School
SD 3 Pejeng Elementary School
SD3 Bongkasa Elementary School
SD4 Singapadu Elementary School
SD2 Samu Singapadu Kaler
Pondok Pekak Libaray and Resource Centre Kelabang Moding Elementary School
Bali Children's Project : Escaping Poverty Through Education
Bali Hati School, Mas Ubud
While following the National Curriculum, the school enriches its child-centered, interactive learning program with English and computer classes, class projects, public speaking, cooking, arts and crafts, story telling and field trips. A bilingual program in the elementary school began in July 2007. PLEASE JOIN US IN PROMOTING LITERACY AND LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE BALINESE COMMUNITY by DONATING A BOOK. |
This
school had an unused building on site that was renovated and now houses
the school library. As it is so new, it is in urgent need of books to
fill the waiting shelves. The students are all keen learners and have
asked for books that not only will explain the world outside Bali but
also help them to face the challenges that they will face in the future
i.e. climate change, resource development etc. Sd Pejeng is committed to
developing a great reading habit amongst the school population.
SD3
Bongkasa is one of our new projects. We have been able to install an
after-school reading program with extra English lessons attached. The
students all love this program and each afternoon it is jam packed with
lots of smiling faces all eager to get into the stories and books on
offer. Sometimes we have more that 50 students turn up!
This
school is situated in the small village of Belang and is very remote. It
accommodates around 200 pupils from Grade 1 to 6. There is a small
library in the school but it owns very few books. SD4 urgently requires
more books and other reading materials to provide a vital part of the
students' education in literacy and language. In the picture here you
can see the Books for Bali Project Book Plate inserted into the library
book. This book was donated by one of our supportive customers.
Our
newest addition to the Books for Bali Project. This lovely little school
is a pet project of Made Rohani, manager of Ganesha Bookshop. She and
her friends at the Banjar Saraswati have built a new library in this
school and each week donate their time to assist the school in
extra-curricular activities, such as English Reading lessons etc.
Pondok Pekak Library, on the east side of the soccerfield in Ubud, has been working tirelessly to foster education, literacy and learning
amongst the young people of the village of Ubud. The library has a wonderful collection of both Indonesian and English Books as well as games and puzzles. It runs with a committed group of volunteers and is open three afternoons a week.
The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) is a non-profit organisation established in 1998 by a British resident of Bali after an appeal for help by an isolated mountain community, forgotten by time and progress. This project is working to reduce poverty and to empower illiterate and malnourished children through education. They have established a small library which is being well used by the local children.
Suta Dharma, which opened in 1997, has an enrolment of 170 students ranging from kindergarten to age 12. About half the students are Balinese, with the other half evenly divided between Indonesians from other islands and Western children from six countries.
The school's financial resources are constantly challenged due to the economic crisis and political change in Indonesia, making it increasingly difficult to provide a rich education for its students. Donations of children's books in Indonesia and English would be
very welcome.
This
very typical local Balinese School has 130 students over a range of
classes from 1 to 6. During 2005/6, and with the help of a group of very
dedicated American families, this school has been partially renovated to
include a brand new library room and shelves of new educational and
fictional books. The library now consists of 400 books in both Bahasa
Indonesia and in English – some bilingual. The staff and students at the
school have been very excited by the library and are keen to keep adding
in new books in both languages.
Although
each village in Bali has its own individual character, the schools all
share common problems. Classrooms are uniformly basic, and all too
frequently in poor physical condition. Roofs often leak, and with desks,
doors & windows broken. Teachers struggle under rudimentary conditions
with few, if any, educational materials or teaching aids. Even so, many
of these dedicated individuals long for more training and better
teaching tools. The children respond with heartwarming enthusiasm to the
smallest improvements, their minds full of curiosity and willingness to
learn. Bali Children's Project and Books for Bali is working with these
schools to create wonderful learning environments. One of these schools
is situated in the village of Penestanan and it is in great need of new
library books to feed these eager minds!
Bali
Hati School was started as a kindergarten in 1999 and now offers
elementary grades 1 through 6. In July 2006, at its first 6th grade
graduation, the school was ranked No. 1 in Ubud and No. 7 in Gianyar
Regency, in association with SDN 6 Mas, from approximately 300
elementary schools based on the students' achievement in the
government's national graduation examination.|
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