Books delivered to readers in Africa

Equip a classroom with books

Education is the key to defeating poverty and achieving your full potential. Your donation of £10 per month will help us cover the cost of processing and shipping 20 books every month to people in Africa. That's enough books for one class room every month!

Donate £10 monthly

Equip a school with books

Education is the key to defeating poverty and achieving your full potential. Your donation of £500 will help us cover the cost of processing and shipping 1,000 books to people in Africa. That's enough books for one school!

Equip a public library with books

Education is the key to defeating poverty and achieving your full potential. Your donation of £5,000 will help us cover the cost of processing and shipping 20,000 books to people in Africa. That's enough books for one public library!

Equip an entire community with books

Education is the key to defeating poverty and achieving your full potential. Your donation of £8,000 will help us cover the cost of processing and shipping 40,000 books to people in Africa. That's enough books for an entire community!

Sending 1 million books every year

Education is the key to defeating poverty and achieving your full potential. Our annual fundraising target of £200,000 will help us cover the cost of processing and shipping 1,000,000 books to people in Africa. Get in touch to fundraise or become a corporate sponsor.

Who We Are

Books2Africa is an international Non-Governmental Organisation based in the United Kingdom (UK registered charity 1152599) whose mission is to promote a culture of 'readcycling' and to improve the quality of education in Africa, through the collection, processing, shipping and distribution of quality books, computers, and educational materials, that enable individuals, institutions, and communities to acquire knowledge and achieve their full potential in a globalised world. The charity was established in 2012 by four African students from the same family who came to study in the UK.

Our Impact

2 Million Books

Shipped to students and teachers across Africa

1 Thousand Tonnes

Saved from landfill and 'readcycled' in the UK

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Special thanks to the following who have funded shipments

Kent Union

Books2Africa started as a student society at the University of Kent in 2012 and received a start-up fund from Kent Union

Universal Channel Africa

As part of the launch of Season 2 of TV show The Librarians, Universal Channel ran a TV campaign that raised £12,000 to fund our first container shipments of books to Africa.

Macmillan Education

For 175 years Macmillan has built lasting relationships with teachers and educators around the world. in 2016, they started donating books to the charity and funding container shipments.

Ninety Consulting

With a business model committed to donating 90% of their profits to charity, Ninety Consulting started funding container shipments of books in 2015

Convertize

Books2Africa receives 100% of profits from the sale of Smart Persuasion, a book by digital marketing company Convertize.

Concilius AG

Politics influences the success of your company. With an expert team of around 30 consultants, CONCILIUS develops political and strategic solutions for your business model and implements them in close cooperation with you.

Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust

Its objectives have closely followed the interests of the Ferguson family in their commitment to education, peace, and reducing poverty in developing countries

Carmela and Ronnie Pignatelli Foundation

The Foundation’s key aim is to support those most vulnerable in society. Whilst the Trustees consider a wide range of causes, the main focus is on the young and the disadvantaged in the U.K., Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Kuros Associates

Independent investment specialists working with Institutions and Family Offices.

Commonwealth Education Trust

As a charity with a shared purpose of advancing education across the Commonwealth is shared, the CET decided to fund a shipment.

Thanks to the following who have supported Books2Africa in other ways

Clugton Technologies

The charity has benefited from thousands of pounds worth of web design and development from Clugton, enabling us run an efficient information and communications technology infrastructure.

A&S Self Storage

More than 11,000 books were collected in the first year and A&S provided discounted storage, enabling us move the operation off campus and become a registered charity.

Google For Nonprofits

After becoming a registered charity, Books2Africa was accepted on the Google For Non Profits programme, receiving free digital advertising that spread the word across the UK and beyond.

TBN UK

TBN UK aired a 30 second video about Books2Africa for several weeks on their newly launched faith and family TV channel, free of charge!

Hootsuite

Books2Africa receives a 50% charitable discount from Hootsuite, a social media management platform created to help people connect on social media and do amazing things together.

Zendesk Chat

Books2Africa receives a 100% charitable discount from Zendesk Chat, a toll that takes away the stress from Customer Service.

Gravity Forms

Books2Africa received a 35% charitable discount from Gravity Forms, the "Easiest Tool to Create Advanced Forms for Your Website".

Gravity Wiz

Books2Africa receives a 50% charitable discount from Gravity Wiz, a company dedicated to providing awesome Gravity Forms resources in the form of snippets, tutorials and plugins.

Zapier

Books2Africa received a 100% charitable discount from Zapier, the "best way to Connect Your Apps and Automate Workflows".

BrightPay

Books2Africa receives a 100% charitable discount from BrightPay, "payroll software that makes managing payroll quick and easy".

Wristband Creation

This California based company provided free customised wristbands used as part of Books2Africa's fundraising materials.

DealsDaddy UK

We have started supporting books2africa because we believe "There is no friend as loyal as a book"