BHU-2012-02

“REPAIR,CARE,SHARE”LOVE THE BOOKS!

LOSELLING MIDDLE SECONDARY SCHOOL

FEELProblems faced in the school :

Dirty toiletPackaged foodCongested Car Parking(inside the school premise) Water shortageImproper use of Text Books and carelessly handling them

• Where we felt ,that mishandling of text books was the most important problem to be solved.

• Ministry of Education of Bhutan provides free education, the text book are free too. Every year government spends a lot in purchasing text book for e.g., in our school, Total Expenditure just for class ten text books would be Nu1097 x 70 studs'=Nu 76,790

• There for we thought to help the school and the government to cut down the expenditures and also help the children to have conducive learning materials.

IMAGINE We started with, why the life span

of books reduced? reasons were:

• Not Covering books• Scribbling with pen and markers in the

text books• Mishandling like playing with sharp

objects• Turning the pages recklessly• Leaving book behind after school

carelessly

Possible Solution that can be

adopted.• Frame guidelines on

how to use the books

• Repairing the old and torn books

• Replaced the unusable

• Timely checking, if found violating the rule, fine of 10 per book would be charged.

DO

DO

Guide lines were presented for maintenance of books, non compliance with the norms would be penalized.

Collected books to be repaired and replaced. Repaired 48 books and 69 books were replaced

and141 books were submitted to the store after repairing, there by total of 189 books were repaired within one week.

We intend to repair some more text books lying in the store to enhance more learning materials.

Collected fine of Nu 840 on the 1st week of checking after repairing the books, in the second week we just collected Nu360 which was a drastic improvement in the maintenance of the books.

SHARE We gave a presentation during assembly

time on the working of ‘ Repair, Care, Share” Loving book, and the Message we passed was BE RESPONSIBLE, LOVE YOUR BOOKS!

We even circulated letters to parents to create awareness among parents . DFC presented to Changbangdu Primary school so that they could also adopt our story of change.We have plans to visit some other middle secondary and higher secondary schools to share our story of change

Presenting to Changbangdu Primary school

Feed back It reminds the students, parents and teachers to

take proper care of textbooks The program would go a long way in extending the

life span of textbooks which would help in reducing government expenditure.

It promotes the idea of becoming self-reliant and instills in the young minds the way of taking care of public property.

- As said by Principal- Students have become more responsible in taking

good care of the text books, by not leaving it in the class, covering the books.

- Teacher

Some of the changes brought by DFC Group are:• “Most of the students have their books

covered• Many of the students are carrying all the

books from the school to home(stopped keeping the books in the classroom after the school)

• Many of the old and torn text books are found in place or found well repaired”

-As said by Staff Secretary of Loselling MSS“ The club has contributed lots in reducing

paper waste and above all they have been the champion in advocating the text book management, such group must exist effectively in all times”– Teacher

‘REPAIR CARE SHARE’

LOVE THE BOOKS!

THANK YOU