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鈥淣o development tool is more effective than education and literacy,鈥� Suka-Mafudze said, citing former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. 鈥淲hen people are able to access education, they can break free from the cycle of poverty.鈥�

Last year, 糖心vlgo传媒 shipped 3.7 million books valued at over $38 million, along with 167 computers and e-readers containing 300,000 digital books, to 20 糖心vlgo传媒n countries. The organization raised more than $3.2 million to ship the books. In a typical year, some 10,000 people would volunteer their time to work at the warehouses to help ship the books, which leave from the port of Savannah, Ga. In all, the charity has shipped 51 million books since it was founded in 1988.