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As part of celebrating the New Year in Iran, and since reading is considered as an important factor in the lives of the Iranian youth, the Department of Culture and Social activities in one of the most prestigious universities across the country, Tehran University, organized the Fourth edition of its charity project that aimed at distributing around 30 thousand books through the book club of the University.

The event took place with the support of volunteers, publishing houses, charity foundations and other scientific institutions in the country.

The books that were distributed as gifts included different topics such as literature, psychology, life skills, religion, academics, sports and other. With the help of over 100 volunteers who were doing the classification and packing work, the books were packed in boxes and distributed over some 25 provinces that are considered as deprived areas.

Such activities take place during the Nowruz holidays every year. Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year marking the beginning of spring, is an essential part of Iranian heritage that is not only celebrated in Iran, but also across the world [majorly across the Balkans, Caucasus, and Asia] with more than 300 million people taking part in festivities. One of the important values of these festivities is to help the poor and the needy, carrying out acts of benevolence and good deeds to bring happiness to the lives of others.

The event dubbed “Dedicate a book” that takes place every year now with the help of young Iranian men and ladies is an event to provide the deprived especially with the chance to read books on different topics and propel them to become more engaged in self-education.

According to Reza Haji Abdai, Head of the “Hezareh Qoqnus” publishing house and who in in charge of the annual event and was the first to support the idea of the activity, “one of the most important aims of the event is to encourage reading books, help save the environment, and increase literacy rates among the people on the different topics.”

He assured that books should not remain imprisoned in home libraries or stacked on the shelves of book stores, but rather should be used correctly and be put in the hands of the people.

Abadi went on to say that the people involved in the event are divided into three groups. The first group includes heads of publishing houses and writers who put hundreds of books at the service of the event and help in the categorization process. The second group includes the society and charity foundations that support the event by every means possible, while the third group is the popular force which includes the young volunteers who help organize the event and the youth who are interested in reading books and hence benefit from the program.

The event is in progress every year is like a ripple effect, Abadi said, adding that if one person received a book and finished reading it, then he can deliver it to another friend who can read it as well, by that multiplying the benefit and spreading it across the society.