Celebrating World Book Day 2015

On Thursday, April 23^rd 2015 Student Executive Board (BEM) from the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Jenderal Soedirman held a donate books activity #1BOOK1SMILE for country kids smile. This activity was held at Secretariat (sekre) of the Student Executive Board of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

This event was held in order to celebrate World Book Day 2015. World Book Day is also known as International Day of the book is an annual event on April 23^rd. It is on this date in 1616 that Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died.

World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on April, 23^rd 1995. It was a natural choice for UNESCO’s General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a worldwide tribute to books and authors on this date. This memorial day is to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.

Universitas Jenderal Soedirman students can participate in this event by donating one or more notebook. In addition to notebook, the students can also donate the reading books, such as fairy tale book, science book, social book etc. If there are many students who participated in this activity, then there will be a lot of books that can be donated. All of the reading books that accumulated will be donated to Taman Baca Masyarakat (Society Colportage) that located in the vicinity of Purwokerto, Central Java. Meanwhile, for the notebook will be distributed to children who are around Taman Baca Masyarakat.

This activity is one of the social action organized by BEM Faculty of Economics and Business to increase interest in reading, especially for children. These books will be very useful for them. Reading is the window of the world, various information can be obtained by reading. Read a lot means a lot of open horizons of knowledge. People who love to read will have more confidence because they have a lot of knowledge.