Share your love of reading
This Christmas your gift will send brand-new books and help create the warm welcoming reading spaces that children need.
Books give people power
They provide the information and the inspiration that people need to build a more equal future. So we work for a world where everyone has access to books.
Yvonne Weah in Liberia
During the war my inner strength was from the books. I wanted to share that strength with others.
Ugbaad Abdillahi Mohamed in Somaliland
You fall in love with the books when you read today. Then tomorrow you will have the appetite to read again.
Mustafe Osman Abdi in Somaliland
Education is light. The library brought us light.
Rogers in Uganda
Thanks to our mountain bike library, I’ve seen how books give people power
Davidson in Malawi
Now, when my daughter comes home from school, she reads to me things that I cannot read.
Ahmed Makkour in Syria
The cost of a book could be $100. That $100 could be a month’s worth of food for a whole family.
Mr. Musa Mansaray in Sierra Leone
If we hadn’t received books from Book Aid International, it would have been so challenging for us to serve the public.
Habiba in Greece
I think the books are very good for me – for my heart.
Eletina in Malawi
If I never had access to books, things would be different
Justin in Kenya
If I had no access to books life would be very bad. I would not be able to reach the place where I want to be.
Get ready for Christmas!
From beautiful exclusive Christmas cards to wrapping paper to last minute e-gifts, our Christmas shop has plenty of options for the book lover in your life.
Calculate your impact
Publishers donate books to us, but we can’t send them without you. See how many books you could send*
Based on the average value of a book sent since 2017, £13.
Our latest shipment
Destination
South Sudan
Date sent
01/12/2023
Books on shipment
25,453
Books sent in 2023
1,192,734
From our team
We can only share the power of books because of our generous supporters, our inspiring partners and our many friends. You can meet a few of them on our blog.
Thanks a million!
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