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Books For Africa is pleased to announce that we have doubled our book-processing capacity at our Atlanta warehouse. With our new and improved warehouse space, BFA will be more ready than ever to ship even more books, computers and other educational materials to students in Africa. Patrick Plonski, executive director of BFA, and BFA founder, Tom Warth, traveled to Atlanta to celebrate the warehouse expansion from January 31 and February 1. The two were all smiles as they observed just how many more books will be ready to ship from the new space.

The Course Hero Knowledge Drive has recently reached a new milestone – 35,000+ books donated to children abroad since its creation in November of 2010. Established in partnership with Books For Africa, the Course Hero Knowledge Drive is founded upon a simple premise: for every 10 academic documents a student contributes to Course Hero, 1 book will be donated to Books For Africa. This movement allows Course Hero to add to the powerful social learning community and resources they provide to students around the world, while simultaneously giving children in Africa the gift of education and the ability to attain a better quality of life.

Prince Amukamara, the rookie cornerback of the Super Bowl-bound New York Giants, is giving sports fans everywhere a chance to win Super Bowl tickets while supporting St. Paul-based Books For Africa and Arizona-based IFESH (International Foundation for Education and Self-Help).

Books For Africa Executive Director Pat Plonski, board member Mike Essien, and members of the IFESH team (International Foundation for Education & Self-Help) met with U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Terence McCulley at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 22, 2010, to discuss collaboration on advancing education in Nigeria.

BFA Executive Director Pat Plonski and Board Member Mike Essien were in Abuja, Nigeria, recently where they signed off on a $400,000 Memorandum of Understanding with the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation to ship 32 containers of BFA books to Nigeria in the months ahead. Click on the link above for more info and photos...

Here is a link to a recent op-ed piece, “Promoting Literacy to Support the Rule of Law,” by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, co-chairs of BFA’s Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative. This op-ed is on the Kofi Annan Foundation website and has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Minnesota Public Radio Online News. Click on the link above for more info...