Mysuru: Youth For Seva launches 'Give Paper Back' to help poor students

MYSURU: With the academic year 2020-21 ending abruptly due to the Covid-19 scare which forced the authorities to advance the annual examination, now the bunch of volunteers in the city launched Give Paper Back (GPB) campaign in the city schools. As part of the campaign, they are collecting the used notebooks which will be recycled and donated to the poor needy students in the new academic year with a bag and geometry box.
"We launched this campaign in Mysuru last year. But it was not much successful due to many reasons. This year again we launched this notebook collection drive at the school level and other places from the last week of February. We are meeting the school heads, parents, team leaders working in various companies, etc creating awareness and hand over the used notebooks by students. The idea is saving trees as to manufacture notebook papers, a large number of trees are cut," said Satheesh Metri, district coordinator, Youth for Seva organization which carrying out this initiative. Metri, an MSW graduate informed that both used and unused notebooks are collected under this drive.
"We are meeting all the school heads, techies working in various companies to spread a word on this movement," he explained.
"Our aim is increasing the reuse of the notebooks which many times end with becoming waste," he informed.
According to the activists, many are donating even textbooks. "We are collecting the textbooks also donated by the people. If we get enough number of textbooks, we are planning to launch a library to help the poor children by keeping these books," concluded Sateesh.
According to Kavita Preethi, the state coordinator of the event said, this campaign has been launched in two cities in Mysuru area including Mysuru and Mandya.