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At the ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ warehouse off of Prior Avenue in St. Paul, students and administrators of the Mandela Washington fellowship program sorted thousands of books Thursday into cardboard boxes, which were bursting at the seams with children’s books and novels. Next to those boxes, shrink-wrapped pallets of stacked textbooks in biology and physics are ready to be sent across the Atlantic to the continent of ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.

Twenty-four ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n leaders from 15 different countries sorted and packed books at the Books for ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ warehouse as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.

On June 30, ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ concluded its third-most-successful fiscal year to date, shipping over 3.2 million books to 27 countries in ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.

When University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Instructional Resources Service began its partnership with Books for ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½, the university donated small quantities of titles, and BFA Founder Tom Warth collected the boxes of withdrawn textbooks in his SUV. But now, over these many years, they are needing semitrucks to collect the books

On Wednesday, June 15, Togolese Ambassador to the United States Frédéric Hegbe hosted the annual ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ Summit Society Reception, the first in nearly three years.

Books for ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ recognizes staff for the half-million books donated over 25-year partnership