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Books for Africa

Date posted: Mar 29/07 Posted by: Shauna Fuller

Poli Sci student Dhruv Sharma is organizing a Better World Books campus book drive to benefit Books for Africa

The goal is to collect as many books as possible during the book drive - please help by donating any college-level books from the past 5 years that you no longer need! (Any book from the last 5 years that could be used in a college classroom. Highlighting/writing in books is fine)

Look for the big green and white collection boxes at various residences and the campus Bookstore

Between April 9th and April 20th.

Please donate any books you are unable to sell back at buybacks! Many of these books will be sold online to raise much-needed funding for Books for Africa (100% of profits, after all costs, will go to BFA as unrestricted funding), and some books will be directly sent to BFA and distributed to African countries in need.

About Books for Africa:

Books For Africa (BFA) is the largest shipper of donated textbooks to the African continent. Founded in 1988, the St. Paul-based organization has delivered more than 14.3 million books to 27 African countries. According to Patrick Plonski, executive director of Books For Africa, the need for books on the African continent is great: “In many African villages, seven children share one book. Some village schools own no books whatsoever.”

Learn more by watching BFA’s 10-minute video: www.booksforafrica.org/video.html.

About Better World Books:

Better World Books (BWB) capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. Since its founding in 2003, Better World Books has raised more than $1.3 million for its non-profit literacy partners (including over $900,000 for BFA), provided more than 450,000 books for direct use & diverted in excess of five million pounds of books from landfills! Learn more at www.betterworldbooks.com.