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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.

ADC Business Breakfast Roundtable August 16, 2012 7:30-9:00 AM ADC Main Office 1931 South 5th Street Minneapolis, MN 612-333-4772 • 1-877-232-4775

Books For Africa wants to show the world the power of books, so we are holding a photo contest! Pictures should show a child or classroom in Africa that has a special connection to books - maybe they received BFA books, or maybe they are in desperate need of a school library.

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!