Combating Africa’s Book Famine

March 22nd, 2013

Books for Africa began collecting and shipping school books to nations in Africa from a warehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota 25 years ago.

Now with a warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia, BFA is the world’s largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent.A conversation with Brad Mattson

Here, Brad Mattson, Development and Operations officer with the non-profit, talks with WABE’s Steve Goss.

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