The Photo Gallery section contains photos which have appeared on the Books For Africa home page. The most recent items are at the top and the rest follow in reverse chronological order, with the oldest item at the bottom.
A recent Books For Africa book shipment was received with excitement in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Posted September 9, 2004 • Permanent Link
In July of 2004 Books For Africa Vice President Ron Aminzade and Executive Director Pat Plonski met with government officials, school officials, and BFA book partners in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. Books For Africa maintains a close working relationship with numerous partners throughout Africa who distribute books to schools and libraries. Pictured above from left at a meeting at the parliament building in Dodoma, Tanzania are Kajia Mjema, Executive Director of the Tanzania Book Support Trust; Ron Aminzade; the Honorable Joseph Mungai, Tanzanian Minister for Education and Culture; the Honorable Frederick T. Sumaye, Prime Minister of Tanzania; and Pat Plonski. "This trip was important to tour sites where schoolbooks are being shipped in Africa, and to lay the groundwork to ship many more containers of books in the future," Plonski said.
Posted July 28, 2004 • Permanent Link
In April of 2004 Books For Africa hosted a visit to Minnesota of a presidential delegation from the Republic of Rwanda. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, President Kagame spoke about efforts to rebuild schools and infrastructure and increase levels of education and human development. Pictured above at a special reception at the residence of the President of the University of Minnesota are Dr. Robert Jones representing the University of Minnesota; Winston Hewett representing Lawson Software; President Paul Kagame of Rwanda; and Patrick Plonski representing Books For Africa. In a collaborative effort University of Minnesota students will collect books that will be shipped to Rwanda by Books For Africa with financial support provided by Lawson Software. Books For Africa has also submitted a proposal to USAID to ship 15 containers of books to Rwanda over the course of three years.
Posted April 28, 2004 • Permanent Link
Books For Africa recently partnered with the Nobir Valley Development Center and USAID to ship one 20-foot container of books to Qardho, Somalia in East Africa. Somali immigrants in the United States originally from the Qardho area raised funds and coordinated this successful effort. Click here to read the letter we received from the Mayor of Qardho.
Posted April 5, 2004 • Permanent Link
Kelly Paige Stenhoff, Minnesota Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, unloading books from Books For Africa. Her family contributed books and funds to allow Kelly to start a library in her rural village.
Posted February 27, 2004 • Permanent Link
Recently BFA led a group of 10 to visit some partners in Botswana and South Africa. The following is a photo from the trip and the reflections of one participant’s experience.
"The people we met were so full of hope and energy to make life better for others. In the schools we visited could be seen the determination of the teachers to do as much as they can for the children. And the children...smiling, friendly, eager, bubbling with giggles. They shared their ability to read and how they were learning to use the library system. All of the school resources seemed important to them right down to many using pencil stubs as they did their class work. Getting up at 4:30 am in order to get ready and walk to school was just a regular part of the day for many of the children. The values and hopefulness that so many people shared as well as the beauty of Africa will always be with me". —Karen Kendrick
Posted March 3, 2003 • Permanent Link
On December 4, 2002 Mrs. Nane Annan, wife of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, visited Minnesota as a guest of the United Nations Association of Minnesota to raise awareness of the continuing devastation caused by the AIDS epidemic in Africa. During her brief stop in the Twin Cities, BFA was proud to give her a tour of our warehouse facility in downtown St. Paul, where she heard an update on the planning of our HIV/AIDS educational project, which will place culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS educational materials in our book shipments.
Pictured here with Mrs. Annan is BFA board member Kojo Amoo-Gottfried.
Posted January 2, 2003 • Permanent Link
In September 2001 BFA sent 25,000 books to Peace Corps worker Jerry Montgomery. JerryÕs mom and dad, who coordinated the shipment, then traveled to Uganda in November to see the books arrive.
Click here to see a slide show of how the BFA books made their way to the school kids in Uganda.
Posted February 20, 2002 • Permanent Link
January 2002: Chadwick High School students John Gahagan, Allison Conley, Sabrina Arora and Joyce Lacey collecting books in California for BFA.
Posted February 20, 2002 • Permanent Link
In May and June 2001 Tom Warth collected pledges and walked from East to West across Minnesota to raise money for BFA. Pictured here, at the end of his walk, is Tom (2nd from the left, standing) with friends and family.
Posted October 12, 2001 • Permanent Link
Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Secretary-General of the United Nations and BFA supporter, Kofi Annan (at a meeting with Books For Africa in May, 1998).
Posted September 29, 2000 • Permanent Link
The greatest experience of BFA Board President Lane Ayres' March 2000 trip to Ghana was an audience with the king of the Ashanti people, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu the Second. Here, under a spreading tree at his palace, the Asantehene reviews BFA's 1999 annual report.
Posted September 29, 2000 • Permanent Link
On February 25, 2000, at the Chevron office complex in Warri, Delta State Nigeria, a BFA shipment is handed over to Nigerian educational officials and Chrevron representatives form the Western Niger Delta. Pictured (left to right) are Paul Idiahi (Warri Adminstrative Manager, second from left), Chief Tobin (IDAMA COUNCIL OF CHIEFS), Nathan Gooch (Chevron Nigeria Production Specialist), Joe Jakpa (Cheveron Public Affairs), and Thirdman Robinson (Secretary of IDAMA YOUTH). Thanks to Chevron for providing overland and sea freight for this shipment.
Posted September 29, 2000 • Permanent Link
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