OUR TARGET
Age 6-16
Age 6-16
Our Mantra: Reading is fun and rewarding
Reading is fundamental to aid a child’s all-round development. It is a key factor for a child to become successful at school. It also helps to enlighten the child about the societal happenings, it develops the child’s imagination and helps to improve alertness. However, for many children, reading looks like the last thing to do. Some even see it as a punishment, especially in this digital world and this is because they have not discovered the fun in reading.
Bookspals is a reading club that aims to bring children together to read, share books, reviews and swap stories and also earn rewards while at it. Thus, bringing together, what a child might feel he/she has been obligated to lose by reading– fun and effective social interactions while increasing their intelligence, developing their minds and interests. Bookspals also aim at improving parents-child interaction and offer the opportunity of reading more books at less cost.
Bookpals is affiliated with GAIN (Giving Aid International Network) whose collective purpose is to inspire, nurture and empower the young generation in Africa to become future, impactful leaders.
Our mission is to help children develop a reading culture and make them lifelong readers by engaging in activities and programs that are appropriate, conducive, and fun for children.
Our vision is to have at least a hundred thousand (100,000) members in a year in several locations in Nigeria to develop a reading culture among the young generation which will consequently promote their total well-being, help them become future leaders and critical thinkers. We plan to expand beyond Nigeria and connects with other Countries in Africa in the future.
We uphold these values that makes our vision and mission a reality.
We recognize the importance of diligence and we work to achieve our goals by being committed devotedly to our cause. We work persistently to spread the news of the importance of reading to the young children to diverse communities.
We believe that enthusiasm is the fuel that drives commitment. Therefore, we aim to help each child to be enthusiastic by focusing on his/her interests while introducing new aspects he/she can learn from. We are also enthusiastic in seeing that readers truly become leaders, so we focus on the improvements that each participant make and commend them for it.
We adequately optimize the opportunities we have to achieve our goals through our partnerships with other organizations and the social media. We also encourage our participants to be resourceful by reading more books for less cost.
We admit that every child is unique in his/her own way and we incorporate respect while dealing with every child and also encourage the children to be respectful of one another as they interact together. We ensure that the children do not interrupt one another, and we hold the stance that there is no wrong answer or opinion.
We honour our words and principles. We are faithful to what we represent and the message we pass across to the children and society, which is that reading is fun and helps to develop one to become a great leader.
Eniola has been enthusiastic about reading since she was a little girl. Her father exposed her early to reading newspapers, while he
Readers are divided into three categories based on their reading capability.
Membership is absolutely free and no registration fees required. What if you don't have up to the numbers required to form a group within the school or church. We would manually linked up with the closest group within the same neighborhood to form a complete group. Although the minimum in a group can be 5members but not more than 10.
Anyone exchanging books most take full responsibility for the books exchanged, and in the case its damage, it will either be replaced by the person who got it damaged. However, you must capture the state of the books borrowed by taking pictures and forwarding it to a whatapps provided for our achieves for records.
Its mandatory that we keep to the cycle and you will be required to release the book for another exchange once the cycle is complete.
Cycle depends on the category and number in a group. Different cycles would be provided for different groups. Most like Fridays for those exchanges that would take place in school and Sundays for those that would take place in church.
We intend to use the school, church or mosques as platform for exchange depending on which organization the group if formed. So for those connected with the school, then it has to be school or same for the organization.
For the first book purchased, you may get as much as 20% and subsequent books bought would be 10% or more.
After reading 5 or 10 books depending on your category, you will be required to take an online assessment, and if you score above 80% and you will also receive points for every book read. This points add up with your score in the assessment and proof of purchasing atleast 3 books will win you a voucher. The value can be from N200 to N1000.
Yes, the membership gives you the opportunity to buy other books at a discount but the organization has to consent to it and provides you with a coupon to redeem the discount if the book is within what the bookstore is giving us at a discount.
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