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We can offer a free book collection and free global citizenship workshop to almost every UK secondary school.

We are a network of regional student-volunteer-led projects collecting disused books from schools across the UK.  We sort them, match them to the Tanzanian/Ugandan syllabus and, if relevant, we send them to East Africa.  Any book not relevant to send (we don't take religious/political books for example) is sold online to generate much needed funding.  If it can't be sent or sold, we recycle it, generating more funding. It's a simple process. COLLECT, SORT, GENERATE, DISTRIBUTE, RECYCLE. But then, after we've collected the books from the UK schools we even deliver a free workshop to educate school children about global citizenship and sustainability.

 

Support us by buying a book we couldn't take!

 To organise a Global Citizenship workshop or get fundraising support for your school click here or email us.

    

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 Calling all Writers!

We have launched our Read for READ national short story competition to give aspiring writers the chance to get their work published whilst raising money to send textbooks to East Africa.  The closing date for entries is May 13th 2010.  Click here to find out more and submit your story.

 

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