The celebration of Kartini day at Elbow Room (Kemang Raya) brought different ambience as 21 gorgeous ladies stand hand in hand to raise funds to support Books for Hope.

Olga Lydia,Books for Hope’s Reading Ambassador, initiated this fund raising event. The event went well and the customers of Elbow Room are excited to know more about Books for Hope and how to participate.

These ladies really showed the Kartini spirit within. The funds raised will surely help to change the life of the children across Indonesia through books.

So,for all the women out there,let’s show the Kartini spirit and help making this world a better place to live.

Books for Hope, Lydia, jessy, olga lydia, and 2 reporters (from gatra and MNC) just got back from komodo village in komodo island (flores). We support the village there by donating 350books.

There are around 450children in the village, age from elementary to junior high. They have a proper school building only up to junior high. Those who want to continue to senior hig, have to go to the other island.

To build the library in komodo village, we work together w/ the kepala desa (pak adam). The space for the library is located below pak ridwan’s house (the houses in the village is rumah panggung, so we use the ‘kolong’ as library). The bookshelves are prepared by the community with the support of Taman Bacaan Pelangi.

When we arrived at the village, the children were lining up to welcome us with their ‘komodo’ theme song. So interesting. They even have a ‘manta ray’ mascot dancing during the songs.

We held WEW as usual. There were around 80 children attending the workshop.

Olga Lydia has been very helpful in arranging this visit and in getting the media coverage. So the promotion will be from the tourism side komodo island and books for hope is mentioned as well.
the media coverage,will come from more media, coz olga arranged press conf yesterday.

Pada tanggal 16 Agustus 2009, ada yang berbeda di perkampungan nelayan, Muara Angke, Jakarta Barat. Sekitar 50 anak berkumpul dengan menggenggam buku kesukaannya. Mereka tak sabar menunggu giliran untuk segera menunjukkan kemampuannya berdongeng di acara: “Merdeka Lewat Buku”.

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