A site devoted to thoughts about books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa mostly by Michael Kevane, co-Director of Friends of African Village Libraries, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to helping village and small community libraries in Africa. I am also an economist at Santa Clara University. Other frequent contributors are Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, and Anne-Reed Angino, FAVL networker extraordinaire! For more information see the FAVL website, http://www.favl.org
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
African Library Project
I finally reconnected with Chris Bradshaw, who runs African Library Project, which coordinates book drives in U.S. schools, "aggregates" the books, and gets them to partner organizations in southern Africa to start village libraries. They have shipped books for more than 200 libraries in just a few short years! If you are thinking of a way to help English speaking school kids, consider organizing a book drive- all the information you need is available on their website.
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