Needy families requesting for textbooks increased by over 50% from 11,500 to 17,500.
NTUC FairPrice's Share-A-Textbook Project, which has been around for the past 27 years continues to meet the demands of needy families and students.
This year the demand from needy families has increased by over 50% from 11,500 students in 2009 to some 17,500 students.
The closing date for collection is on November 30 2010.Despite collecting 150,000 textbooks and it is still short of its target of collecting more than 200,000 textbooks to help more students in need save on textbook expenses.
The organisation and its volunteers are seeking help from the public to donate Primary and Secondary textbooks before the closing date.
To ensure that the books collected will reach the needy various unions, welfare organisations and schools were earlier invited to nominate suitable students to collect the books under the project's Priority Scheme where they will collect their textbooks ahead of the public.
Though the project hopes to continue to benefit from the public's generosity it also hopes that the public will donate textbooks of the relevant levels and not university textbooks and assessment books or textbooks with missing pages and or defaced textbooks.
The organisation thanks the public in advance for their generosity and hopes to continue aiding the youths to continue their educational pursuits.
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