October 15th, 2019
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø was honored to receive the “Friend of the Communityâ€� award at the 8th African Awards Gala in October at Target Headquarters in Minneapolis. The award recognizes BFA’s work shipping over 46 million books, serving every country in Africa, while working in close partnership with African diaspora around the world.
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September 1st, 2019
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø is pleased to announce that 2019 was another record-setting year of shipping books, computers, e-readers and law libraries to 29 African countries!
Judith Rosen
Publishers Weekly
July 8th, 2019
Four canisters loaded with 30,000 copies of 10 different Barefoot ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø titles in Portuguese, with a retail value of $6 million, are scheduled to arrive in Mozambique later this summer after being custom-printed in Hong Kong and shipped from its port. The books will be distributed to AIDS orphans and their caregivers. This shipment of 300,000 books is part of a new ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø initiative in which the organization will begin publishing some books in local languages for charitable donation through a partnership with a publisher. Typically, BFA sends used book donations to countries in Africa in English, and occasionally French, Spanish, and Arabic.
March 27th, 2019
The MoneyGram Foundation provided a $50,000 grant to ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø to sponsor a shipment of 66,000 books, computers and maps to schools in Ghana, Cameroon, and Ethiopia, and a team of employees in the MoneyGram International Minneapolis office volunteered to sort donated books at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹Ù꿉۪s St. Paul, Minnesota warehouse.
February 28th, 2019
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Founder Tom Warth, Board President Jote Taddese, and Executive Director Patrick Plonski were honored to attend the African Union Summit, held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! The Summit was part of a larger trip by BFA leadership, which also included stops in Dubai, Egypt, and Tanzania.
January 15th, 2019
Last summer we were pleased to host a group from the MN Orchestra at our Minnesota warehouse, where they helped unveil two beautiful Little Free Libraries to be included in a BFA container shipment to South Africa. These books have now been delivered and distributed, and are contributing to educational opportunity for students in Soweto, South Africa. T