June 22nd, 2011
Law schools and legal institutions across Zambia will benefit from the more than 1,200 law books in the BFA shipment that just arrived in Lusaka. Thomson Reuters generously provided the funding to ship the books and also donated a West core library and many other legal texts. The law books will be distributed to 12 recipients, including the University of Zambia Law School, Zambia Bar Association, Women Lawyer’s Association of Zambia, the National Legal Aid Clinic for Women, the Zambia Human Rights Commission, and the High Courts of Livingston, Kabwe, Ndola, and Kitwe. Click on the link above for more info...
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June 15th, 2011
Mary T Inc., a healthcare company based in Minnesota, funded the delivery of over 22,000 BFA books and 15 refurbished computers to students at 24 secondary schools and 22 primary schools throughout Cameroon. One recipient school was the Margaret Tjosvold Nursery & Primary School in Santa, Bamenda, Cameroon, which opened in 2002. Click on the link above for more details and photos...
June 8th, 2011
Thanks to generous funding from Better World Books, a container of 22,000 BFA books left the Books For Africa warehouse in Georgia on its way to Angola. In June 2011, guests at the BFA Atlanta warehouse open house celebrated the tremendous support BFA has received from Better World Books and witnessed the send-off of the shipment to Angola. Click on the link for more info...
May 12th, 2011
Click on the link above to read Rwandan Ambassador James Kimonyo’s recent editorial: “Addressing Africa's Book Famine: The Impact Is Immeasurable.”
May 2nd, 2011
BFA Executive Director Patrick Plonski met recently with His Excellency Howard Jeter, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, and His Excellency Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, Nigeria's Ambassador to the U.S., in the Ambassador’s office to discuss strategies to get more BFA books in the hands of Nigerian students.
April 27th, 2011
Books For Africa was honored to host two African ambassadors on April 21, 2011, at a morning reception at Eastcliff on the University of Minnesota campus and at the annual BFA fundraising luncheon at the Town & Country Club of Saint Paul. At the events, His Excellency James Kimonyo, Rwanda's Ambassador to the U.S., and His Excellency Girma Birru Geda, Ethiopia's Ambassador to the U.S., both spoke about the importance of access to education and books in their countries. Click on the link above for more info and view slideshow...
