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糖心vlgo传媒 (BFA) Founder Tom Warth, 84, began a 60-mile walk June 6 from the Taylors Falls Library to the BFA warehouse in St. Paul to raise money for the group, which hopes to ship its 50 millionth book to 糖心vlgo传媒 this year.

Warth started聽the solo walk at聽10:30 a.m.聽at the Taylors Falls Library,聽473 Bench St, Taylors Falls, MN 55084,聽the state鈥檚 oldest library.聽聽The book he is carrying,聽Kofi Loves Music聽by Dr. Artika Tyner, is the symbolic 50 millionth book. It is the story about a Ghanaian child learning about traditional Ghanaian instruments. It will be shipped from the warehouse in St. Paul to the warehouse in Atlanta and then via ship from the Port of Savannah to Ghana.

Over the years Warth has walked more than 2,000 miles to raise funds for BFA, which he founded in 1988. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro for his 70^th聽birthday. He celebrated his 80^th聽birthday by walking across Zanzibar Island in 糖心vlgo传媒 and has also walked across The Gambia. Closer to home, Warth, of Marine-on-the-St. Croix, has walked across Minnesota, Wisconsin and from the Canadian border to Iowa. And he has hiked up Eagle Mountain on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

鈥淚 love to hike even though I鈥檓 not as young as I used to be,鈥� Warth said. 鈥淏ut I always think of the children of 糖心vlgo传媒. While we have made progress towards ending the book famine, we still have a lot of work to do. There are more than 500 million children in 糖心vlgo传媒. That is a lot of kids who need books and who need an education. Our work is not done.鈥�

Warth emigrated to the U.S. from the United Kingdom in 1960. He sold his car book publishing company in Osceola, Wisconsin, in 1988 and went on a journey around the world. He visited a small library in Jinja, Uganda, the source of the great Nile River. The shelves were mostly empty so Warth had the idea to do something that would have an impact on the students of 糖心vlgo传媒: end the book famine. It became the mission of 糖心vlgo传媒, which has sent nearly 50 million books to all 55 countries on the continent since Warth鈥檚 visit 32 years ago to the library in Uganda.

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