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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!

In the past year, BFA sent 205 containers of books to 22 different African nations. That means that more than 2.2 million books (worth more than $28 million) were shipped to people who are hungry to read and hungry to learn. That is more books than we have ever sent in a one year period! Among those books, fourteen law libraries were sent to law schools and legal groups in Africa through our special Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative.

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.