April 8th, 2011
BFA Executive Director Patrick Plonski recently toured the Follett Educational Services warehouse in Illinois. Plonski met with the Consul General of Liberia and senior Follett executives to discuss how to get even more books into the hands of African children. Follett has provided millions of books for BFA shipments.
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April 4th, 2011
At a March 4th reception honoring Books For Africa at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in Washington D.C., Jeff LeBlanc and Todd Lawton (at right) announced the funding of a 40-foot shipment of BFA books to Ghana in honor of His Excellency Daniel Ohene Agyekum, Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S. (at left). LeBlanc and Lawton are co-founders of Out of Print (www.outofprintclothing.com), a company in New York that sells T-shirts and e-reader jackets featuring iconic book covers. Click on the link above for more info...
March 30th, 2011
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February 3rd, 2011
The Books For Africa 2010 Annual Report is now available. See how many shipments of books we sent and to which African countries, plus a quick summary of all the exciting events and initiatives from the past year. Click on the link above to view...
January 26th, 2011
Pam Shelton and her colleagues at the Botswana Book Project sorted and distributed over 28,000 BFA books in southern Botswana in September 2010. The books were given to teachers, Peace Corps Volunteers, and representatives from Rotary clubs, hospitals and clinics, and multiple charities, such as Kagisano Society Woman's Shelter Project. Click on the link above to view more photos and to read more about the book distribution...
