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The Borgen Project spoke with Books For Africa’s Executive Director Patrick Plonski. Rather than sending the books wherever the organization prefers, the organization operates under what Plonski describes as a “demand-driven” system. Organizations in Africa send out requests for books, which Books For Africa then attempts to meet. The sizes of organizations requesting books range from as small as a village to as large as a country.

Books For Africa was honored to welcome a site visit to its warehouse facility on August 7th by Marietta Congresswoman Lucy McBath and representatives of the Akwa Ibom State Government (Nigeria)

Books For Africa is pleased to report that it closed a successful fiscal year 2021 at the end of June, despite the challenges of the past year! Check out some of the numbers and charts showing our FY2021 shipments.

As COVID-19 continues to afflict Africa where, according to the BBC, more than 130,000 people have died of the coronavirus and cases are on the rise in many countries, the Saint Paul-based nonprofit Books For Africa is ramping up the quantity and quality of the books it supplies to reduce the continent’s high rates of illiteracy.

Books For Africa recently heard from its partner Children in the Wilderness (CITW), which has been at work distributing books to primary schools in the rural region of Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe. BFA’s collaboration with the Zambezi Schoolbook Project has now brought over 1.4 million books to Zimbabwe!

Books For Africa recently supported FHI 360 South Africa’s Capacity Development and Support program with a shipment of over 40,000 books for the purposes of supporting orphans and vulnerable children who are at risk or affected by HIV.