Books For Africa
Books For Africa. A simple name for an organization with a simple mission. We collect, sort, ship, and distribute books to children in Africa. Our goal: to end the book famine in Africa.
Books For Africa is the world’s largest shipper of donated books to the African continent. Since 1988, Books For Africa has shipped over 20 million high-quality text and library books to 45 African countries. Millions more are needed.
It costs $9,800 to send a sea container to most major sea ports of books and computers to Africa. Your donation will enable Books For Africa to send even more books to children in Africa who are hungry to read, hungry to learn.
To learn more about groups currently fundraising to ship books to specific African countries,
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Success Stories & News
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Thanks to a generous grant from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Books For Africa sent approximately 22,00 books to Al Mansour Dhahbi Secondary School in Morocco in 2009. Mr. Mustapha Walaf, Secondary School EFL Teacher, oversaw distribution of the books to his school and other neighboring schools. In January 2010, BFA Executive Director Patrick Plonski visited the recipient schools accompanied by Mr. Walaf. Click on the link above for more info and to view photos and video…
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Books For Africa Executive Director Pat Plonski visited partners and potential partners in Nigeria, Ghana, and Morocco in January of 2010. His trip was covered by the largest newspapers in Ghana and Morocco. Click on the link above to view some photos from this trip...
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Thanks to generous funding from Donaldson Company, students in the South Africa are now the proud owners of over 20,000 BFA books. The Rotary Club of Kirstenbosch handled the distribution of the shipment. Some of the books were donated to the Shine Centre in Cape Town, who gave books to multiple schools in the area. Click on the link above for more info and to view photos…
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More than 27,000 high-quality illustrated children’s books are headed to Africa thanks to Capstone Publishers in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. The 27,000 books have a retail value of $14.99 each. “It’s part of the culture of this company to give back. We value literacy,” said Lisa Hanson, Capstone’s director of human resources and community giving. Please click on the link above for more info and to view more photos…
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The NGO Invisible Children recently began distributing a shipment of BFA books to libraries in eleven of its partner schools in Gulu, Uganda. According to their blog: “In Uganda, like many other countries in East Africa, students have next-to-no access to reading materials while at school. Making books available is the first part of the reading culture equation.” Click on the link above for more info…
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