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Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall becomes Patron

Book Aid International is deeply honoured to announce that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall is its new Patron.   Book Aid International is the UK’s leading international book...
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Books, Ben Okri & Book Aid International: Join us at Hay 2022

In this year’s Book Aid International platform at Hay Festival, the Booker Prize-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri and youth leader from The Mo Ibrahim Foundation Zainab Umar will...
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Stepping into a challenge

Here at Book Aid International, we rely solely on donations from our amazing supporters to send books around the world to the people who need them. Some of our...
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