Executive Director, Pat Plonski travels to Africa

 Books For Africa Executive Director travels to Djibouti and Tunisia.  Pat received tours from high level officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture, and Ministry of Education.  In particular, the Diplomatic Academy was very appreciative of the law library shipped to them courtesy of Thomson Reuters, and the Health Ministry was very appreciative of the medical books we sent courtesy of Merck.

The site visit at a local primary school was extremely well-organized and well-received as this school and partners thanked us for the books received.  The US Ambassador to Djibouti was on site as was Djibouti’s Minister of National Education.  The event was extremely high-level and covered by Djiboutian national television.

Members of our Minnesota delegation traveling to the military base serving our troops joined in this visit.  St. Paul, Minnesota has a sister city relationship with Djibouti, which was also noted. 

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