Calcutta will get its own great wall on Teachers Day — a wall for a cause made not of bricks and mortar but of books and compassion.
The Aviva Great Wall of Education, presented by The Telegraph, will be built at City Centre (Salt Lake) from September 1 to 5.
Schools and citizens can donate books at the site to be built into a wall and then distributed among children who can’t afford to buy them.
The first time Calcutta got to hear about the event was at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence on Saturday, a fitting platform for the announcement of an initiative to support the pursuit of education against all odds.
Barry O’Brien, the convener of the awards, announced the Aviva Great Wall of Education and appealed to schools to donate books for the cause. “The Telegraph Education Foundation supports the endeavour,” said O’ Brien.
The book donation drive for underprivileged children was launched by Aviva India in Delhi on November 11, 2009, national education day, and a wall with over 1,23,000 books was built.
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