Book Aid International is Independent Booksellers Week’s nominated charity and are promoting a joint fundraising activity ‘Meet, Talk, Give’. Book Aid International knows that books change lives, yet in some countries it could take a whole month’s wages to buy a single book. They are asking people to make a small donation to Book Aid International at their Independent Booksellers Week event.
For every £2 that your group collects, Book Aid International can send another specially selected new book to a library in a school, public library, refugee camp, prison or rural community in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
By supporting Book Aid International you are helping them to send around half a million books a year to some of the world’s poorest and disadvantaged communities. They ensure that the books they send match the local need and that they are distributed to the libraries and communities that need them the most.
You can download the ffundraising sheet that has ideas for holding your own fundraising event and details about how you can make a donation to Book Aid International.
They have also produced two quiz sheets that you can use with your reading group, book club or even with friends and colleagues.
Round One should warm you up for the deeper literary challenge of NRGD-2011_Meet_Talk_Give_Quiz_R2_02-3.pdf. Let us know how you get on?
Book Aid International is a charity that increases access to books and supports literacy, education and development in sub-Saharan Africa. They have provided 507,787 new
books to over 2,000 libraries last year alone and have sent more than 30 million books to partner libraries since 1954.
