August 22nd, 2012
The goal of Operation Gusii Books 2 was simple: bring more books to Gusii community and Kisii County in Kenya. Thanks to a partnership between Minnesota Kenya International Development Association (MKIDA) and BFA, that goal was accomplished. In July, Kisii University College received 500 legal text books from BFA, through MKIDA and the University of Minnesota, along with enough books to fill the libraries of 57 primary schools in surrounding Kisii County.
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August 16th, 2012
More than 2 million books to 22 different African countries over the last year? Now that’s a milestone! Here, BFA Executive Director, Patrick Plonski, describes the great achievement of our biggest year yet on KSTP (St. Paul, MN) on August 5, 2012. Plonski talks about how BFA will end the book famine and the great work we have done so far.
August 9th, 2012
Patrick Plonski, BFA Executive Director, has another blog up on Huffington Post Impact! The Impact blog is running a special series on impending crisis in the Sahel. There is a real need for education and development in the region and BFA has delivered to a number of countries in the region since we were founded in 1989.
July 30th, 2012
Thanks to fantastic volunteers, Books For Africa has been able to ship over 27 million books to schools and libraries in 48 different African countries since 1988. In June of 2012 alone, more than 1,300 volunteers pitched in at our Atlanta warehouse to help sort and pack books. That is more volunteers in one month than we have had in nearly 25 years of shipping books! One fantastic group of Capella University students from the Atlanta, GA, region pitched in at our warehouse in July 2012. Watch the video to see how this stellar group helped BFA in our mission to end the book famine in Africa!
July 10th, 2012
BFA is a regional finalist for: Charity of the Year & the Disaster & International Aid Award. The CLASSY Awards are the premier Non-Profit Awards in the United States.
June 15th, 2012
Support a local book shop and a local non-profit when you purchase I Am Because We Are, by Betty Press, at Common Good Books at their new Snelling Avenue location in St. Paul, MN. But hurry! Supplies are limited.
