USAID

As part of BFA grand opening activities for new warehouse facilities, a new partnership with the USAID African Education Initiative was announced to ship 18 40-foot containers of textbooks to eight African countries. Containers will be shipped to Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Madagascar, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. The first container was shipped on September 27, 2006 to Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania with the Tanzanian Ambassador to the United States — the Honorable Andrew Daraja — on hand for the day’s festivities. Over 500,000 books valued at over $2.6 million will be shipped under this partnership with USAID.

“Books For Africa is honored to work in partnership with USAID’s African Education Initiative to improved education across the African continent,” said Books For Africa Executive Director Patrick Plonski. The BFA-USAID project is scheduled for completion by August of 2007.