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New Jersey student, 12, participates in Global Literacy Project

April 13, 2009 on 5:15 am | In Book Drives/Book Donation Events, USA Program News, Volunteers in the News | No Comments

Neeraj Shekhar, of Martinsville, New Jersey, collected some 1,000 medical books as part of a self-designed initiative with the Global Literacy Project. The books–in addition to models, posters, stethoscopes, and a digital projector–were donated to the Delta School of Nursing, an educational facility in a small Southern India coastal village that serves girls from oppressed and impoverished communities. Neeraj was inspired by the difference that access to literacy can make when he and his parents participated in a GLP Global Learning Expedition to South Africa in  the summer of 2007. Neeraj and his parents, Vaidyanathan Chandrashekhar and Janaky Ramaswamy, traveled to India this past March to deliver the items to the delta School as well as to volunteer in setting up a small library with the items. According to Dr. Olubayi Olubayi, president of the Global Literacy Project, Shekhar is the youngest person to undertake this kind of project by himself.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090412/NEWS/904120316