 Volunteer St. Lucia is joining Volunteers worldwide and embracing the special initiatives project, aimed at fostering community engagement and improving the lives of others. In recognition of Reading Month and under the theme doing good, leaving no one behind, Volunteer St. Lucia has launched the BookSwap Party initiative. The concept welcomes students to freely walk into the library and exchange books they're old for new. Volunteer St. Lucia lead Justine St. Croix says that the objectives of the initiative is to promote how book swapping is easy, cost-efficient and contributes to saving the planet by supporting the movement and recycling of books. To be part of the initiative, all you do is to come in with your children, your child or your daughter or son. You come in, you register, we take the child name, the school, the grade. We offer them cheats based on the number of books they come with. They can come up with as many as three books. Some are coming with more, we are allowing it. And we give them the cheats where they can walk around, if you look at the room, they can walk around and they can select their books from the different sections. We have for tiny thoughts, we have for the intermediates, we have the juvenile, and the parents of course ask us to cater for them. So we also have an adult section and we also have an educational section which are bringing in books that the children never use which will be of benefit to the younger ones coming. Volunteer St. Lucia is looking forward to expanding the initiative to all libraries island wide and collaborating with schools in the district. All books are welcomed and the initiative is not exclusive to students only but anyone willing to hand over books that are not in use. Volunteer St. Lucia, the volunteers coming, they give off their time to be here where they can register the students and walk them through the process and assist them with selection of their books. The Central Library is the pilot. After this we are moving on to the other 16 libraries island wide so the next libraries we will be going to is the Miko library and the Moshi public library. The National Volunteer Program is primarily a youth-led volunteer program dedicated to expanding opportunities for all citizens. The program is under the patron Her Excellency Dame Pellet-Louise which supports the creative industries and culture department within the Ministry of Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training I am Daniel Dubois reporting.