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Agoura High School students Brittney Nial and Helena DeLoof organized a recent collection drive for Books For Africa. They collected 9,000 textbooks, medical books, children's literature, fiction and nonfiction books to be distributed to small library building projects in Africa through BFA.

Centre for Communities Education and Youth Development (CCEYD) has donated two boxes of books to the Al-Iman Foundation basic school in Tamale. This project was supported by Books For Africa and Vector Global Logistics.

Tens of thousands of children in Kenya will soon have new libraries in their schools thanks to a non-profit based in Bluffton working with Books For Africa, and one man’s efforts that started with a single book.

Check out this great podcast where Books For Africa was interviewed on Manufacturer’s Library, a production of the Book Manufacturers’ Institute.

If this past year has taught us anything, it is that the safety and well-being of people halfway across the world can have a dramatic impact on Minnesotans here at home. From hunger, to civil conflict, to global pandemics, Minnesotans know that we are not truly safe until all of us around the world are safe as well.

Books For Africa’s year was filled with milestones, from adapting to COVID-19 to marking the 50 millionth book sent since it began improving literacy and striving to end the continent’s “book famine” 32 years ago.