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Mandela Washington Fellow, Wilfried Mbamba, handed over tablets to five medical students studying at the University of Namibia (UNAM)’s School of Medicine at the Hage Geingob Campus, last week.  Wilfried Mbamba is one of 700 young ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n leaders that recently visited the United States of America during this year’s Mandela Washington Fellowship program.

A container of 22,000 BFA books recently arrived in Uganda, where it was received by local NGO Bega kwa Bega (Shoulder to Shoulder)!  Bega kwa Bega works to help the more than 2.5 million orphans in Uganda find roads to success, and education is an important part of their work. 

Somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean, a shipping container full of books is currently making its way to a port of call in ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½, where it will be ushered through customs, and unloaded into waiting trucks. The books, thousands of them, will be distributed to children and adults across the continent, many of whom have no access whatsoever to technology. Books are the only way these people can read and learn — the only way, really, they can participate in the modern world.

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ held its 30th Anniversary Gala on Friday, September 28th, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The celebration, attended by 500 BFA supporters and VIPs from around the world, was the highlight of a busy and successful day of events!

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ is excited to announce an ongoing partnership with the ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n Union that will deliver tens of thousands of books to the AU Library in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! The agreement, announced Friday, September 28th at the ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ 30th Anniversary Gala, will deliver an initial shipment of 22,000 books on mathematics, science, law, health and other subjects, to coincide with the next AU Summit in Addis Ababa in January 2019!

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n diplomats will talk business Friday with Minnesota business-and-trade officials at a private luncheon at the University Club of Saint Paul in connection with the 30th anniversary of St. Paul-based ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½. That evening at the Nicollet Island Pavilion, Arikana Chihombori-Quao, ambassador of the Embassy of the ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n Union, will address the anniversary gala to celebrate past accomplishments and encourage deeper cultural-and-commercial ties.