October 27th, 2020
Books For Africa has just completed its fifth year of recipient surveys! The survey found that recipients overwhelming rate BFA books as useful and of high quality, and the five years of data has shown some very positive trends in usefulness and relevance of books delivered!
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October 22nd, 2020
Books from BFA’s Ellothebooks shipment to Togo recently arrived in Dapaong, in the far north of the country, for distribution! Read more about the Minnesotan connections to this project in our latest Success Story.
October 20th, 2020
Books For Africa’s 50 Millionth Book Virtual Global Celebration was a resounding success! The Global Celebration raised over $403,000, enough to sponsor over 806,000 books to Africa.
October 9th, 2020
Friend of BFA Rania Benromdhane used her time during the pandemic productively, running a club at her school in support of Books For Africa’s mission! Her work and interest in supporting BFA was recently featured in the “24 Hours of Harvard” program, put on by Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost of International Affairs. Check out the section on Rania starting at 1:42:50!
September 21st, 2020
Books For Africa recently partnered with UPS for a project that resulted in nine containers being shipped to the African continent! UPS donated freight for the effort, which sent a warehouse's worth of books from North Carolina to the continent.
September 9th, 2020
In 2013, a BFA-supported library project was launched in the town of Nedjo, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. BFA recently received a report reflection nearly half a million library visits in the seven-year period since!
