(Listed alphabetically)
Chanin Building
380 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10168-4298
Phone: 212-949-5666
Fax: 212-682-6174
E-mail: aainy@aaionline.org
AAI’s mission is to provide enlightened engagement between Africa and America through education, training and dialogue.
Africare House
440 R St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20001-1935
Phone: 202-462-3614
Fax: 202-387-1034
Website: www.africare.org
Africare helps Africa. Over the course of its 32 years, Africare has become a leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa. It is the oldest and largest African-American organization in that field.
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington DC 20005 USA
Phone: 202-326-6650
Website: www.aaas.org
Accepts journals for distribution to many countries.
39-41 Coldharbour Lane
Camberwell, London SE59NR
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: 44 20 7733 3577
Fax: 44 20 7978 8006
Website: www.bookaid.org
Book Aid International works in partnership with organizations in developing countries to support local initiatives in literacy, education, training and publishing.
They provide relevant books and information to those in greatest need — to enable people to realize their potential and contribute to the development of their communities.
80 Elmira Street
San Francisco, CA 94124 USA
Phone: 415-656-8990
Fax: 415-468-8379
Email: booksforasia@asiafound.org
Website: www.asiafoundation.com/programs/prog-us-bfa.html
Since 1954, The Asia Foundation's Books for Asia program has distributed more than 36 million books, software, and other educational materials to 50,000 institutions in over 40 countries throughout Asia. The program sends over 500,000 books and quality education materials per year to over 4,000 libraries, schools, universities, and non-governmental research centers. Roughly 90% of these materials are new textbooks donated by U.S. publishers. Books for Asia also accepts used books from college bookstores, wholesalers, organizations, businesses, libraries, schools, and private individuals, provided they meet Asia Foundation's strict criteria. Donated books are evaluated for condition and content and are processed on a first-in first-out basis from their San Francisco warehouse.
Steve Frantzic
P.O. Box 6327
Annapolis, MD 21401-6327 USA
Phone: 410-293-6865
Website: www.parole-rotary.org/yearproj.html
1240 Alamae Lakes Road
Washington, PA 15301
Telephone: 724-222-0549
Fax: 724-225-2077
E-mail: pburroug@cobweb.net
Website: http://www.booksfortheworld.org
A non-profit, tax-exempt corporation. Its main function is to collect donated books and school supplies and to distribute them to schools in need, all over the world.
665 Grant Ave
San Francisco, CA 94108 USA
Phone: 415-678-2990
Fax: 415-678-2996
Email: Asianet@bridge.org
Website: www.bridge.org
A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization which supports education and research in developing countries in Asia. They send donated books and journals to universities, provide research services using the Internet to answer urgent and complex questions, and help to develop in-country libraries and computer networks that make knowledge more accessible.
Lakewood, WA
E-mail: contact through website www.ibok.org
BOK is dedicated to the discovery of the specific needs of a group of people and working to remedy those needs. Our primary current purpose is collecting Used/Discarded Text/Library books for distributiion to countries in need of educational/library materials. We are currently sending books to Cambodia.
1501 Reedsdale Street, Suite 3005
Pittsburgh, PA 15233-2341 USA
Phone: 412-321-3160
Fax: 412-321-3325
Email: BBF@charitiesusa.com
Website: www.brothersbrother.org
Brother's Brother Foundation sends sea containers to libraries all over the world that can pay for shipping. In Jamaica, the Philippines and Ghana, they work with local Rotary Clubs to distribute books to libraries throughout the country free of charge. In other countries that have indigenous Rotary Clubs, Rotary International will match funds for shipping.
U.S. Headquarters
151 Ellis Street
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Phone: 404-681-2552
Email: info@care.org
Website: www.care.org
CARE is one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations. CARE has become a leader in sustainable development and emergency aid, reaching tens of millions of people each year in more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. For more than 50 years, CARE has been a vehicle of American generosity abroad. CARE reaches out to people whose lives are devastated by humanitarian emergencies or who are struggling each day in poor communities to survive and improve their lives. CARE focuses its approach at the family and community levels. CARE seeks a world of tolerance and social justice, where people have overcome poverty and live in dignity and security.
Mathias Chonya, Executive Director
Samora & Ohio
P.O. Box 9421
Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Phone: 255 051 35216
Fax: 255 051 35216
CDTF is a non-government organization in Tanzania that coordinates development assistance from international donors and supports the efforts of villagers to raise their standards of living.
321 Chapel Street
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 7Z2
Phone: 613-232-3569
Toll free: 800-661-2633
Fax: 613-232-7435
Email: codehq@codecan.org
Website: www.codecan.org
CODE has been promoting education and literacy in the developing world for more than 40 years. Vision: To support a sustainable literate environment in the developing world. Mission statement: Enabling people to learn by developing partnerships that provide resources for learning, promote awareness and understanding, and encourage self-reliance.
George Lange
35 Cantera St.
Thousand Oaks, California 91360-2612 USA
Phone: 805-493-2226
Fax 805-492-1743
Email: Okici@aol.com
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen NETHERLANDS
Phone: 31 317 467100
Fax: 31 317 460067
Email: niang@cta.nl
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) was established in the framework of the Convention of Lomé, a cooperation agreement between the European Union member states and the 70 African, Caribbean and Pacific states. CTA's tasks are:
To develop and provide services which improve access to information for agriculture and rural development.
To strengthen the capacity of ACP countries to produce, acquire, exchange and utilize information in these areas.
CTA runs several programs in support of agricultural libraries in the ACP states. They provide reference books, CD-ROM databases and rural radio reference packages.
1926 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820 USA
Phone: 203-866-3006 for requests from Peace Corps Volunteers;
203-655-2777 for all others.
Fax: 203-866-4070
Email: MMMinnis@aol.com
Website: www.darien.lib.ct.us/dba
Darien Book Aid sends small boxes of books directly to libraries all over the world. They do not have any partner organizations. To request books, write them a letter describing your library, the reading level of your users (by United States grade level if possible), the subjects you need and any other information that could help them to choose books appropriate for your library. The letter should be on school or library letterhead with the library stamp or other official mark. Darien will send you a postcard to let you know when the books were shipped. They will be sent surface mail and may take six months or longer to arrive. They would appreciate a thank you letter and photo of the library when the books arrive. Darien also accepts requests via email.
Mrs. Anna Mkapa
15 Luthuli Road
P.O. Box 78262
Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
A non-government organization founded and run by the first lady of Tanzania whose main objective is poverty eradication through the empowerment of women in Tanzania. EOTF has received and distributed several shipments of books from BFA.
1038 South Highland Street
Arlington, Virginia 22204
Phone: (703) 685-0510
Fax: (703) 685-0529
E-mail: info@ecdcinternational.org
Established in 1983, the Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc. (ECDC) is nonprofit, community-based organization. Our mission is to resettle refugees; provide cultural, health, educational, and socio-economic development programs to the immigrant and refugee community in the United States; and to assist in educational and socio-economic development programs in the Horn of Africa.
Shelby Tarutis
17043 Second Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98177 USA
Email: GambiaHLTH@aol.com
A group of returned Peace Corps volunteers sending books to The Gambia.
Robert K. Amoaka
P. O. Box LG 536
Legon-Accra, GHANA
Phone: 233-21-502495
Fax: 233-21-772562
Email: gbt@africaonline.com.gh
Website: www.ghanabooktrust.com
The goal of the Ghana Book Trust is to support a sustainable literate environment in Ghana by increasing access to books.
Objectives: To strengthen library facilities; to improve the skills of librarians; to improve the skills of teachers in the teaching of reading and librarianship; to support the local publishing industry with the purchase of local books; to collaborate with any other organization engaged in library development and book donation.
Bradley K. Vogt
2201 Eagle Street Unit D
Baltimore, MD 21223 USA
Phone: 410-362-0334
Email: ibbusa@internationalbookbank.org
The International Book Bank is a nonprofit distribution service for books and other educational materials donated by North American publishing companies and the education community. IBB distributes these materials to nonprofit organizations such as schools and community libraries in developing countries around the world.
Kenneth DeGilio
1440 Delaware Avenue
Lexington, KY 40505 USA
Phone: 859-254-6771
Carrie Oelberger
158 Packard Road
Stow, MA 01775 USA
Phone: 978.897.8767
or
Box 67
Kibaya-Kiteto
Arusha, TANZANIA
Phone: 255.27.255.2170
Email: jifunze@jifunze.org
Website: www.jifunze.org
The mission of the Jifunze Project is to empower individuals living in under-served parts of rural Tanzania to attain a quality education which will expose them to other worlds, enrich their lives, and expand their possibilities for livelihood.
Jephew Nyaga Murang’a
Executive Director
Lengo House, 1st Floor Door 2
Tom Mboya Street
PO Box 51306 (00200)
Nairobi, KENYA
Email: jephewnyaga@yahoo.co.uk
Physical address: 2 Durban Road, Avondale, Harare
Postal address: P.O. Box A 247, Avondale, Harare
Phone/fax: 04-333424 / 303488
Website: www.bookcouncil.co.zw
The Zimbabwe Book Development Council is an independent professional and specialist body established to promote the creation and maintenance of a sustainable literate and informed society, that aspires for intellectual self-reliance.
37 Drake Rd.
Scarsdale, N.Y. 10583 USA
Phone: 914-723-0024
Operation Bookshelf is a small all-volunteer organization that sends boxes of books to libraries, schools and NGOs worldwide. They fill requests for books on a first-come first-serve basis, subject to the availability of materials.
274 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 7DZ UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: (44) 1865 311311
Fax: (44) 1865 313770
Email: rbuck@oxfam.org.uk
Website: www.oneworld.org/oxfam
Oxfam has a Book Token Scheme that allows their partners, which may include libraries, to select a few publications on development topics from the catalogues of Intermediate Technologies and Book Aid International (see above). Oxfam has offices in the following countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Egypt, Yemen, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Albania, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Peru.
Contact the Oxfam office in your country to request further details.
One Rotary Center
1560 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201 USA
Phone: 847-866-3000
Fax: 847-328-8554 or 847-328-8281
Website: www.rotary.org
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 29,000 Rotary clubs.
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: 617-868-3510
Fax: 617-868-7916
Email: sabre@sabre.org
Website: www.sabre.org
Sabre Foundation, Inc., founded in 1969, works to build free institutions and to examine the ideals that sustain them. Its largest current project makes millions of dollars' worth of donated books available to needy individuals in developing and transitional societies worldwide through non-governmental partner organizations, libraries, universities, schools, hospitals and clinics, research institutions and other similar organizations.
Abdillahi Jama
PO Box 974 220 09
Lund, SWEDEN
Phone/fax: 46 46 211 45 02
Phone: 073 989 75 33
Email: sirc@zeta.telenordia.se
Website: www.welcome.to/sirc
A non-profit, humanitarian aid organization founded by Somali professionals and academics. SIRC is free from any political, racial and religious affiliations. Their mission is to promote reconstruction and rehabilitation projects for Somalia's collapsed political, economic and social institutions.
5620 Williams Lake Road
Deming, WA 98244 USA
Phone: 360-592-2382
Fax: 360-592-9042
Used textbooks from public schools and universities, used books from libraries, discarded books from publishers. Uni-Book is particularly active in Africa, India and the countries of the former Soviet Union. They accept requests for English language books from all over the world. To request books, write them a letter describing your library, the reading level of your users (by United States grade level if possible), the subjects you need and any other information that could help them to choose books appropriate for your library. Please include a school syllabus if one is available. They send books surface mail so they may take six months or longer to arrive. They would appreciate a thank you letter and photo of the library when the books arrive.
John Zubal, President
2969 West 25th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113 USA
Phone: 216-241-6960
Fax: 216-241-6966
Email: info@usbe.com
Website: www.usbe.org
The United States Book Exchange (USBE) is a 501.c3 nonprofit corporation that supplies back issues of scholarly periodicals, trade journals, popular magazines and other serials to libraries worldwide. USBE's stock is maintained primarily through contributions from libraries. Please send your duplicates to USBE; they will be added to their holdings and immediately made available to the membership.
Laura Wendell - Executive Director
1028 Bahama Road
Bahama, North Carolina 27503 USA
Phone: 919-477-3902
Website: www.rtpnet.org/~wlp
Mission The World Library Partnership, Inc. (WLP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building global understanding by promoting literacy, learning and access to information. WLP believes that libraries empower individuals and enrich communities. WLP advocates for sustainable, community-based libraries in developing areas of the world. By supporting libraries and librarians, WLP mobilizes the power of information to make the world a better place for all.
1818 "H" St., NW
Room JB3-105
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Phone: 202-473-8960
Fax: 202-522-0301
Email: wproject@worldbank.org
Used books from school systems, universities, libraries and individuals. WBVS Book Project is dedicated to sending books to isolated, rural, and/or needy schools, universities, libraries and hospitals. When enough book request forms are received from these institutions to justify sending a container of books to a country, WBVS finds a recipient organization to clear the books through customs, notify the other organizations that the books have arrived and distribute them to the other recipients. The distributor can either be spouses/staff of World Bank Missions, the Peace Corps in countries where volunteers are working with libraries and schools, ministries, or local or international NGO's.
WBVS Book Project sends six containers of 400 boxes of books per year to developing countries around the world (shipping is paid to the nearest point of entry). Write to them for a book request form (do not contact the local office of the World Bank). Development workers or librarians visiting Washington D.C. can select books from their warehouse to take to libraries overseas. Due to the long waiting list of countries wanting shipments, it usually takes at least two years for WBVS to collect enough requests, find a reliable distributor, pack the shipment and send it overseas.
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