Today I participated in Stockton College Day of Service.  For my service project for the day I decided to help Books Without Borders.  This organization is an on-campus club that collects, sorts and donates books.  The books go to students in third world countries who lack sufficient educational materials.  The hope of this organization is to spread education throughout the world.

During the Day of Service we assisted in the sorting of the donated books.  When I picked this project I was under the impression that we would be inside in the air conditioning while we sorted the books.  However, to my surprise, they walked us outside as soon as we were told to exit the Event Room.  Not only did we go outside, but we walked for quite some time out to trailers that were sitting within the trees.  Once we got to the location of the books we began to move the boxes out of the trailer.  We made an assembly line of people and handed the boxes down.  This worked very well and we were done faster than the coordinators had expected.

After removing the boxes from the trailer, we began to sort them by genre.  At first, the amount of books that there were to sort was intimidating.  However, there were plenty of people who volunteered to help with this event and they were all good at getting the job done.  Soon the many boxes of unorganized books turned into just a few.  Soon after that, the unorganized books were nonexistent and everything was sorted.  A task that seemed at first to be impossible got done quickly because of the hard work of all of the volunteers working on the project.

In the end I was happy to have worked to help Books Without Borders, even if it did mean the project was being held outside.  What this club is doing for the world is something amazing.  Education is one of the most important things for a successful person to have.  By sending these books out to third world countries, Books Without Borders is spreading the wonderful gift of education throughout the world.