Volunteer educational trip to Ghana

We all agree that we had a very valuable, eventful and memorable trip which we were lucky to be part of. Spending time in Accra and especially Keta with the schools and students was very useful, insightful and enriching. We were looked after extremely well and always felt included, involved and part of the family […]

“Emergency Outfit”

I was recently invited to read this poem at a very special event, in Canterbury, held on the 22nd of June 2019, which happened to be the second annual National Windrush Day, an unexpected and not inappropriate coincidence!  Before reading the poem, I congratulated the dynamic Books2Africa team and their dedicated helpers and supporters in […]

“I hate reading” – How to get young people reading again

Most of the students at this UK school openly admitted; “I hate reading”, “It’s boring”, “there are more interesting things to do” and “If books were like Netflix”. To be honest, I can relate to them. If I was born in this generation, I would probably say the same thing.

Books2Africa Case Study: Tukongote Community Project

Tukongote is a community project run by the Waterberry Lodge in southwest Zambia. Over the past 3 years, Waterberry have built three school buildings to serve the surrounding villages. Books2Africa (B2A) delivered 27,000 books to Tukongote Community Project in early 2018. In June, the community library was opened for use by Tukongote’s growing primary school, […]

Volunteer educational trip to Somaliland

Books2Africa provided essential teaching resources for my voluntary trip. I was given books, a poster and a camcorder to utilise. I made use of all the resources especially the Royal Marsden Manual book