Book donation until April 4 for the campaign “Recicla Cultura”

The university community can collaborate with this initiative in three ways: donating books, buying books or volunteering.
The university community can collaborate with this initiative in three ways: donating books, buying books or volunteering.
Institutional
(22/03/2019)

For the sixth year in a row, the University of Barcelona joins the campaign “Recicla Cultura”, an initiative from Servei Solidari Foundation to promote book donation so that others can buy them at a symbolic price on Saint Georgeʼs Day. The raised money will be used to fund Catalan and Spanish language courses and literacy courses carried out by this entity that eases social integration for the newcomers in Catalonia. Last year, the University recycled 616 books as part of this campaign, and raised 1,345 euros.

The university community can collaborate with this initiative in three ways: donating books, buying books or volunteering.
The university community can collaborate with this initiative in three ways: donating books, buying books or volunteering.
Institutional
22/03/2019

For the sixth year in a row, the University of Barcelona joins the campaign “Recicla Cultura”, an initiative from Servei Solidari Foundation to promote book donation so that others can buy them at a symbolic price on Saint Georgeʼs Day. The raised money will be used to fund Catalan and Spanish language courses and literacy courses carried out by this entity that eases social integration for the newcomers in Catalonia. Last year, the University recycled 616 books as part of this campaign, and raised 1,345 euros.

In Catalonia, although about 65.7 % of foreigners are interested in learning Catalan, about 23.7 % use neither Catalan nor Spanish. A nice sociolinguistic welcome is the first step to social inclusion. To raise awareness on this need, Servei Solidari carried out this campaign, under the logo: “This Sant Jordi, your book can be part of a story”. All members of the university community who wish to collaborate can do so until April 4. Books, well kept, can be given to the CRAI libraries in the different faculties. The best books for this activity are current novels, classics, comics and books for kids and teenagers. Encyclopaedias and textbooks will not be accepted.

On April 19 and 11, the collected books will be available in the stands of the University, on the occasion of Saint Georgeʼs Day, at the Mundet and Bellvitge campuses, in the faculties of Law and Geography and History, and the Historical Building. All the money will be given to Servei Solidari Foundation to fund literacy and language courses organized by the entity, which benefit about 2,000 people at risk of social exclusion every year.

The campaign “Recicla Cultura” at the University of Barcelona is organized by Voluntariat UB, in collaboration with CRAI. Those interested in collaborating as volunteers to sell the books have to register in the call for volunteering.