Nontraditional Bookwallah Libraries of Imagination. Sharing the Gift of Imagination to Children Who Live in Orphanages in Developing Nations.

1. Bookwallah Organization
Photos of Library Projects
India & Indonesia
Seena Jacob
Founder, CEO
sjacob@bookwallah.org
Sharing the Gift of Imagination
www.bookwallah.org

2. Bookwallah Vision: Sharing the Gift of Imagination
Imagine
this….
A
child
receives
a
book.
A
big
smile
appears.
The
wonder
of
people,
places,
things,
never
seen.
Honor.
Courage.
Love.
Passion.
Captured
in
pictures
and
pages.
Opening
a
mind
to
a
world
of
possibility.
“Bookwallah”-­‐
loose
Hindi
translaEon
for
“book
peddler”.
Bookwallah
OrganizaEon-­‐
Private
&
ConfidenEal
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3. Our Mission is Simple and Fundamental
Bookwallah
Organiza6on’s
sole
mission
is
to
collect
and
distribute
children’s
storybooks,
set
up
libraries,
and
spread
the
joy
of
reading
to
children
of
orphanages
throughout
the
world.
Founded
by
Seena
Jacob,
G.
Riley
Mills,
Ranjeet
Nambiar
in
February
2010.
501
(c)
(3)
organiza6on
in
United
States
as
of
May
2010.
Bookwallah
OrganizaEon-­‐
Private
&
ConfidenEal
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