USAID African Education Initiative fund shipment delivered to South Africa

Books For Africa, in partnership with the Africa Education Initiative of USAID, recently delivered a 40-foot container of textbooks which were distributed to schools in Durban and Johannesburg. Photos of the books being received and a message from South African partners are provided:

"We are very excited as we see God bring to pass the things we have desired of him. The ship carrying the books docked on the 18th June 2007 at Durban harbor and the books cleared on the 21st June 2007 at about 12:00 p.m. We accompanied the container to the warehouse and the container was opened in our presence. We were with Angelina and some of the teachers from her school. The col. Habebe assist to see that no import duty or VAT was paid. The books were divided to the three recipients, with us at Elohim Ministries receiving 9 pallets. The books were forwarded to us in Johannesburg arriving Monday the 25th June 2007 at about 3pm and we stored them. The public service including teachers have been striking the last one month thus hiding our effort to identify more schools but we have several that are excited and after the strike we will embark in distributing half the books. The other half will be distributed together with your team of 12 missionaries in September 2007."