Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 as Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers got books to refugee camps as well as libraries.
Eunice Eyi Dotse, a student in Ghana, studies with a book donated by Book Aid International in the market stall her mother operates. Image: Book Aid International
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Publishing Perspectives reported in August, Book Aid International’s effort in 2020 was focused on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on school children in some of its most challenged markets. In many cases, the most important effort is to get books into homes at times when lockdown conditions prevent normal reading programs in schools.
The shop attracting customers from New Zealand and America A SECOND-hand Christian bookshop has now sent more than 22 million books to lesser developed countries around the globe. Book Aid, based on Bridge Street in the town centre, has established three other stores across the country since its formation in 1987. However, regular customers come from as far as New Zealand and America to secure many hard-to-find books for themselves and their churches. The charity was formed at a time when economic crises and foreign currency restrictions were rife, leading to an all time low of Christian books labelled a ‘book famine’.