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The stacks of libraries across Kenya will soon be a little thicker, thanks to a collaboration between a U.S.-based university and two nonprofit organizations to send 50,000 books to the East African country.

Over 300 guests were in attendance to hear H.E. Ambassador David Kerich deliver the keynote address and celebrate BFA’s work in Kenya.

Little Free Library and Books For Africa, nonprofits based in St. Paul, are collaborating with students and faculty at San José State University in California to send 50,000 children’s books to the Kenyan National Library Service and to Little Free Libraries throughout the country.

Communities in Africa are getting the chance to become readers through a donation program across Charleston County School District classrooms and libraries.

Books For Africa recently delivered a shipment of books to Zimbabwe in partnership with the Rava Trust and the Phumulani Minnesota African Women Against Violence organization. The shipment was generously sponsored by BetterWorld Trust, Daniel McNaughton, the Rava Trust, and many other supporters of Phumulani and Rava Trust.

More than 100,000 books shipped to South Sudan have been unloaded and are in the hands of students.