Oleh Book Club Flags off Books Donation Campaign

Yinka Olatunbosun

Oleh Book Club has flagged off its books donation campaign to stock up the Delta State Library, Oleh, in Isoko South LGA, Delta State as well as other neighbouring school libraries.

This initiative is a part of the book club’s corporate social responsibility to satisfy the appetite for books in readers and adults, sustain the momentum of the club’s reading event in Oleh and neighbouring communities of Irri, Oyede, Aviara, Uzere, Olomoro, Igbide, Emede, Ozoro, Owhe and beyond.

The campaign is in response to the pervasive book famine in the land, especially in local communities that lack both resources and facilities to provide same.

It would be recalled that Oleh Book Club marked Children’s Day 2021 on May 28 at Emore Grammar School, Oleh, alongside its inaugural book reading session. The event had a large gathering of school children and adults from within and outside the community.

It had its Coordinator, journalist and writer, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, On-Air-Personalities, Lady Ejiro Umukoro (Mega FM, Warri), and Mr. Oghenero Ezaza (Kpoko FM, Warri), the librarian, Mr. Michael Iboh, poet, Princess Oghale Oweh, the schools’ Vice Principal and Principal, Mrs. Gladys Ighokpo and Mr. Anthony Edheka headlining the reading and mentorship programme.

In the same vein, Ajeluorou, author of children’s book, ‘Igho Goes to Farm’ has called on the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led administration to equip knowledge-enhancing facilities like libraries across the state to meet the growing demand for quality education and make the state the hub for quality education.

Ajeluorou particularly lamented the deplorable state of Delta State Library, Ozoro, that was abandoned and left to crumble to the ground and is currently in a parlous state. He also commended The Martha Charity Foundation for rebuilding the state library at Oleh, which Governor Okowa commissioned in September 2017.

Drop off points for the books are marked with banners appealing to the public to donate books to the library at Oleh. They include Best Western Hotel, DBS Road, Asaba; the Oleh library on IDC Road, Oleh; Christian Tigbogbo Tailoring, 24 Okandeji Street, by Fada-Helie, Off Ometan Road, Warri; Narrative Landscape Press office, 9 Odunlami Street, by Bola Street, Anthony Village, Lagos, and 1 Sanyaolu Street, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos. Others are FRCN, Abuja, Flomat Books Ltd, A16 Cabanna, Sheraton Hotel, Ladi Kwali Street, Abuja, and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Abuja. Cash donations in lieu of books are also valid.