Read-a-thon- “Reading for a cause”
There are many underprivileged people in our society, and it is our duty to help them out. Our middle school community service club organized a Read-a-thon, in which our motto was, “we read for a cause”. The readers, that is we the students of Grades 6, 7 & 8 collected money for every page they read, and that money went to a organization called GOONJ , which helps underprivileged children lead an easier life . The club also held bake sales and book sales to help raise money for GOONJ, during the readathon . The readathon caused quite a stir for the students; we met everyday at the secondary school building atrium and at the beginning of the session, we took a pledge to read. The pledge made everyone feel united and encouraged to read. We read for forty minutes each day.
Anya Lauria
7 A
The Read-a-thon started on
27.11.12 and ended on 7.12.12. The purpose of such an activity was to collect
money to give to the organization called Goonj so that they can provide
rescores to the unprivileged people. All of us got a pledge sheet where we wrote
the name of our sponsors and kept a reading log to see how many pages we read
every day. It was a joyful experience reading so many different types of books
and collecting money for a noble cause. A very innovative activity that our
community service group co-ordinated, was the muffins and the lemonade sale so
that we could collect more money for Goonj.
I enjoyed it most because I liked
reading with all my friends in the atrium while the music was on, we even got
cushions to sit on and mats to lie on and read. We read in any position that we
were comfortable in. We hope Read- a- thon comes every year.
Neha Gupta
Form 6B
