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Check out this great podcast where Books For Africa was interviewed on Manufacturer’s Library, a production of the Book Manufacturers’ Institute.

Books For Africa worked in partnership with its logistics provider Vector Global Logistics to provide a container of books to Ghana at a time with the young people need it more than ever.

Books For Africa has formed a new partnership to provide agricultural libraries and STEM materials for the Moving Windmills Project, a non-profit that inspires innovative solutions to African problems.

If this past year has taught us anything, it is that the safety and well-being of people halfway across the world can have a dramatic impact on Minnesotans here at home. From hunger, to civil conflict, to global pandemics, Minnesotans know that we are not truly safe until all of us around the world are safe as well.

Books For Africa recently heard from Xoli Fuyani, a children’s rights activist based in the Cape Town area of South Africa who recently received books. Her girls have taken the initiative to start a reading club with the books BFA provided.

Books for Africa’s year was filled with milestones, from adapting to COVID-19 to marking the 50 millionth book sent since it began improving literacy and striving to end the continent’s “book famine” 32 years ago.