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228,000 books on their way!
Books on the wayLast week we shipped over 228,000 books to Tanzania where they will be recieved later this summer. Thank you to all the hard work of our volunteers! Read more...
An exciting trip to Tanzania
Rob Wilson recently came back from a trip to Tanzania to finalise arrangements for our new East Africa office, kindly donated by KPMG and to prepare for the 300,000 books that will Read more...
DFID Global Youth Summit
DFIDREAD attended a consultation event to help shape government policy to eliminate world poverty Read more...
Britains Biggest Book Drive - a wild success
In February we launched our largest campaign to date to collect over £17,000 and 34,000 books in just 7 days Read more...
DHL provide free logistical support
DHL logoWe are extremely grateful to DHL for providing free transportation for us throughout the UK. Every year we move thousands of books between our various regional storage sites and th Read more...
Big Yellow give their support
Big Yellow give their supportBig Yellow have generously offered READ International free storage at all/any of their UK sites. Rob Wilson, founder of READ, was accompanied by our patron Tom Levitt MP to meet w Read more...
KPMG donate office space for our first Tanzanian based office
KPMG donate office space for our first Tanzanian based office which will begin operations in June 2009 Read more...
British 10k London Run - sign up here
10 k run logoWe have 24 places available to run the British 10k London Run on 12th July 2009 Read more...
Thank you John Laing
READ International would like to thank all at John Laing who nominated us to receive £5000 on behalf of their Christmas Donations scheme. Read more...
£2000 and a battle 'against nature at its toughest'
Hell Runner newsThank you to everyone who ran the Puma Hell Runner for READ on November 16th and raised a staggering £2000! Read more...