Book_donors

There are many o rganisations which supply gifts of books to school libraries in developing nations:

Book Aid International (previously Ranfurly UK). There are also links to organisations that help Book Aid carry out its work.

Books for Africa

Directory of book donation programs

[|Hope Worldwide] Australia This organisation works in PNG providing medical care but also runs a Book Drive which is approaching its 10th anniversary. It has sent over 2 million books to be distributed by the National Library of PNG to begin school libraries. More information can be found on Hope Worldwide's [|School Library Program]. It is funded by NZAID. There is also an IT Program to provide computers in schools.

Ranfurly Library Service - Rotary Ranfurly is a "book-aid charity" sending books to Pacific nations and Australian Aboriginal communities. More than 2.5 million books have been sent since 1986.

Room to read Room to read has built more than 11,000 school libraries in 10 years in the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zambia. In addition the organsation sponsors girls' scholarships and supports a local publishing program, providing work for local writers and publishers and books for students in their own languages.