THE JOY OF SHARING

From educational point of view, children and books are inseparable. They can learn a lot from books. Imagine how they are amazed by the pictures, enchanted by the contents, and inspired by the moral of the story. All the magic a book can bring to the mind and spirit of a child is an everlasting and powerful contribution to their life-time education, their spiritual growth, and at the same time, their intelligence, and hence, the future of humankind. But not all children have the privilege to access the wonderful world of knowledge and wisdom through books, good books. Especially for those who live in rural areas and remote places, such knowledge and information are inaccessible due to lack of development and poor physical and social environment. If we care about these underprivileged children and willing to extent our concern to help them open their eyes and unlock the door of joy they may experience in reading books, we make an appeal to you: join us to make a collection of used or new books to be donated to those underprivileged children in Indonesia, our future generation of life and its unlimited richness.

We are Vidya Sanggraha (
vidya means knowledge and sanggraha means collection), a non-profit organization which collects books and other learning materials such as VCD and other form of multimedia for children in need especially in remote areas in Indonesia. If you wish to donate books, learning materials, VCD, or funds, can you please contact us at:

Cecil Damayanti (cecil.damayanti@gmail.com), hp 0818.152040, or
Caecilia Triastuti (c_triastuti@yahoo.com)

Thank you for your generosity and your kindness. It is indeed a blessed spirit that may help nourish the hope of children to aim for a better future. May the Almighty God bless you for your kindness and generosity.

Uti, Cecil & Yunita (founder)

Buku adalah salah satu pintu utama menuju pengetahuan, kehidupan, dan kebijaksanaan. Bagi anak-anak dimana sebagian besar dunia mereka secara alamiah adalah dunia belajar, sudah selayaknya buku menjadi bagian hidup mereka yang tak terpisahkan. Kegembiraan dan keajaiban yang bisa dibawa oleh sebuah buku kepada jiwa dan pikiran seorang anak adalah harta terindah yang bisa kita berikan kepada generasi penerus yang akan mengisi kehidupan ini dengan hal-hal yang lebih baik. Namun bagi anak-anak di pedalaman dan yang berasal dari keluarga berkekurangan, buku yang baik, bervariasi, dan bermutu adalah jauh panggang dari api. Kita bisa menjadi jalan bagi mereka untuk menemukan kebahagiaan yang bersumber dari kegiatan membaca buku dengan menyumbangkan buku-buku, baik bekas maupun baru, kepada mereka, melalui kami. Indahnya hidup ini bila kita bisa saling berbagi dan saling bergandengan tangan meraih masa depan bersama yang lebih baik.

Kami, Vidya Sanggraha (
vidya artinya pengetahuan dan sanggraha artinya koleksi), adalah organisasi nirlaba, bergerak dalam bidang pengumpulan buku-buku bacaan untuk anak-anak dan berbagai sarana pembelajaran, misalnya dalam bentuk multimedia dan VCD, baik baru maupun bekas, untuk disalurkan ke daerah-daerah yang membutuhkan di Indonesia.

Jika anda tergerak untuk menyumbang, baik buku, VCD, material pembelajaran, maupun dana, silakan menghubungi kami :

Cecil Damayanti (cecil.damayanti@gmail.com), 0818.152040, atau
Caecilia Triastuti (c_triastuti@yahoo.com)

atau bisa langsung kirim bukunya ke:

Vidya Sanggraha
d/a PT Essicipta Lestari
Komplex Perkantoran Apartemen Permata Eksekutif Lt 3 U
Jl. Pos Pengumben Jakarta 11550
tel 021 53673719

Catatan : khusus utk wilayah Jakarta-Bogor kami dapat mengambilnya di lokasi anda

Untuk wilayah Jawa Timur dan sekitarnya, sumbangan buku dapat dikirimkan ke:

Caecilia Triastuti
Jalan Salatiga no.10
Malang 65145

Sumbangan dalam bentuk dana dapat dikirim ke :

Caecilia Damayanti
BCA Jakarta, KCP ITC Permata Hijau
No. 505 0275231

Terima kasih. Kepedulian dan kemurahan hati Anda adalah seberkas cahaya harapan bagi anak-anak untuk meraih masa depan yang lebih baik. Kiranya Tuhan memberkati kebaikan dan kepedulian Anda.

Uti, Cecil & Yunita (founder)

Jumat, 15 Mei 2009

Kika Syafii and the Community Reading Center

Despite his skinny and diminutive appearance, the young man has an extraordinarily strong will. That was our impression of Kika Syafii with respect to the establishment of local “Taman Baca” (Community Reading Center) that he built. For the purpose, he saved his income obtained from creating website. His dream has always been to provide children in remote areas with good quality reading materials to help them broaden their horizon.

Eventually, through his tireless efforts as well as voluntary support and generous favor from several parties, his Community Reading Center was officially opened for public in March 29, 2009. The location of his Community Reading Center in the needy areas in Cianjur suits best with his wish to serve underprivileged families and their children with reading materials to satisfy the isolated people’s thirst for knowledge and education.


Now there are more or less 800 titles of books filling up white racks he prepared to keep and display his entire property of a variety of books, ranging from school books, books of popular knowledge, to story books for children. According to Kika, his library is capable to hold around 2000 books.

Vidya Sanggraha had delivered 100 Elementary and High School books, 17 Disney Encyclopedia, 5 children-story books, and around 50 children magazines to Kika on April 5, 2009. Thank you kind contributions of VS’ donators, Vico-Cilincing and Andre. We hope there will be more books to support Kika and his reading community. We still need your continuous participations. These are the pictures of his library’s official opening:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=98645&id=777117305

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