Books for Africa (BFA) has a simple mission: to end the book famine in Africa.
War, economic crises, and poverty plague many areas of Africa, and stop children from attending school and getting an education. According to UNICEF, every third child in Sub-Saharan Africa alone doesn’t have the opportunity to go to school.
The children who are able to go to school often have to share textbooks with 10-20 other students, and most ever never owned a book of their own.
BFA believes educating the younger generation is one of the only ways to end the cycle of poverty in war in Africa. They supply boxes of books to rural libraries, orphanages, community centers and adult literacy programs.
One way they raise money for books (besides donations) is selling t shirts through Out of Print Clothing. The shirts are printed with classic book covers like Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 or other English class favorites.
The sale of one shirt sends one book to Africa through BFA. They have been donating 50 cents per every $28 shirt, which doesn’t seem like much, but the sales have already sponsored an entire shipment of books to Tanzania.
You can learn more about this organization or buy their products here.
Another great post. My daughter works at a school in Sierra Leone and the school has need of good textbooks to use.
ReplyDeleteI noticed these issues:
• use only one space after punctuation
• delete "alone" after Sub-Saharan Africa
• delete "ever" before never
• "of" war in Africa, not in war
• t-shirts