April 4th, 2011
At a March 4th reception honoring Books For Africa at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in Washington D.C., Jeff LeBlanc and Todd Lawton (at right) announced the funding of a 40-foot shipment of BFA books to Ghana in honor of His Excellency Daniel Ohene Agyekum, Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S. (at left). LeBlanc and Lawton are co-founders of Out of Print (www.outofprintclothing.com), a company in New York that sells T-shirts and e-reader jackets featuring iconic book covers. Click on the link above for more info...
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March 30th, 2011
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February 3rd, 2011
The Books For Africa 2010 Annual Report is now available. See how many shipments of books we sent and to which African countries, plus a quick summary of all the exciting events and initiatives from the past year. Click on the link above to view...
January 26th, 2011
Pam Shelton and her colleagues at the Botswana Book Project sorted and distributed over 28,000 BFA books in southern Botswana in September 2010. The books were given to teachers, Peace Corps Volunteers, and representatives from Rotary clubs, hospitals and clinics, and multiple charities, such as Kagisano Society Woman's Shelter Project. Click on the link above to view more photos and to read more about the book distribution...
January 12th, 2011
A 40-foot container of BFA books arrived this week in Tanzania for PEN Trust, a longtime partner of Books For Africa. Nine pallets of books and school supplies and 40 computers from this shipment were delivered to St. Peter Claver High School in Ihumwa, just outside of Dodoma. Click on the link above to view more photos and to watch a video that captures the unloading at the warehouse in Miyuji, the truck’s liberation from the mud, its arrival at the classroom building, and the unloading of the boxes.
