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#literacy #communityservice
Across the US, people who love books and believe in literacy are gathering books, 1,000 at a time, to ship to Africa to build libraries where there are none – in rural Africa. The African Library Project (ALP) offers a program to start new children’s libraries in Africa Book donations are gathered via book drives (1,000 books + $500).
Volunteers collect, sort, pack and mail books ALP’s partners in Africa. Its African partners – from Peace Corps volunteers to school administrators – receive the books and organize them into libraries to serve local African communities. Book donors learn about Africa and develop connections to the children benefiting from their books. To date, ALP has shipped over one million books and over 1,000…Read More