Ending The Book Famine In Africa

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Reading a book can often be taken for granted, yet not everybody in Africa can have this privilege. Often times Children and adults go without books for most of their life. Yet the organization Books for Africa can change that.
They have a simple goal, and it is to end the book famine in Africa. They’ve decided to help do this by collecting sorting the shipping the books to Africa. They help kids who can’t attend school at least get to read and learn. They give many types of books like French, law, and agriculture books. There overall goal is to help people of all ages learn.
“From July 1st 2016 to June 30th 2017.” They delivered 3 million hard copy books and 223 thousand digital books to many countries in africa, like Ethiopia and Nigeria.

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