As the conference is running late, organizers have decided that the second break will be skipped and we're going to the next blogger presentation.





smilinglibrary.blogbus.com

This is a NGO blog aimed at collecting old books for kids in poor areas. Its a non-profit organization around a blog. 1370 kg of books (for the kids).



They started by using blogbus and people started promoting the project on their blogs. Then others started linking to it.



So then a bunch of volunteers set up on blogbus and helped promote the smilinglibrary.


Next blogger/project is 1kg:

www.1kg.cn

An zhu is presenting:



This project collects information from ngos about poor schools and then puts out info so that people gan give books and other things to those schools. There is a question of corrupt school officials and whether they have adequate monitoring.



The thing is this project is based on trust. So they increasingly have face-to-face activities with the schools. Travelers are asked to take an extra kg of schoolbooks and materials when they go to an area to give to the designated needy shcools.


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