July 19th, 2022
Books For Africa recently welcomed a group of 24 young African leaders from 15 countries across the continent to our warehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they met with BFA staff and board members and helped sort and pack books.
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July 18th, 2022
His Excellency Frédéric Edem Hegbe, Ambassador of Togo to the U.S., recently visited the Books For Africa warehouse in Marietta, Georgia.
WCCO
WCCO Radio covered the visit of the Mandela Fellows, a prestigious group of visiting young African leaders, to the BFA warehouse in July.
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July 15th, 2022
St. Paul’s Books for Africa is preparing to send off another huge shipment of reading material halfway across the world. Thursday’s sorting was another step in getting millions of books to Africa.
Nina Thompson
Pioneer Press
At the Books For Africa warehouse off of Prior Avenue in St. Paul, students and administrators of the Mandela Washington fellowship program sorted thousands of books Thursday into cardboard boxes, which were bursting at the seams with children’s books and novels. Next to those boxes, shrink-wrapped pallets of stacked textbooks in biology and physics are ready to be sent across the Atlantic to the continent of Africa.
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Twenty-four African leaders from 15 different countries sorted and packed books at the Books for Africa warehouse as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.