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February 11th 2012

Published: February 11th 2012

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Africa Book Walk

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Let's get going...

The journey has almost begun; at least the actual travel adventure part of it.

Over the past two weeks over 110 people have donated money to help us reach our goal (!!) of raising $10,000 dollars to send a container of books to The Gambia!

Over the next couple of days our team will be departing the US and Britain and head toward West Africa. We hope to keep you updated as we meet with school children and ambassadors and work on developing connection to end the book famine and the literacy drought in The Gambia.

The bags are packed, time to get traveling.

Andy and the African Book Walk Team.

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Africa Book Walk

In February a group will be joining Books For Africa (BFA) founder Tom Warth, who will lead a group from BFA and Hand In Health (HIH) to The Gambia to meet with elected officials along with prominent business and university members about ways to help end the book famine and support the United Nations Development Goals of educating women and children. As part of the journey the BFA team will join others from HIH for the first ever African Book Walk. We will do two walks through the capital of The Gambia accompanied by children from many local schools. Then as a team we will walk the Trans-Ga... full info

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