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See you at Hay Festival!

We are delighted to be back at Hay Festival again this year on Friday 2nd June for our event with Elif Shafak, Mariella Frostrup and Kit De Waal.

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Behind the warehouse doors

Dave, our shipping and warehouse supervisor, explains the logistics behind sending books from our London warehouse.

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Emmanuel's story

Reading to fulfil dreams

In 2016 Emmanuel travelled from South Sudan to the Rhino Refugee Camp in Uganda and has been working hard to achieve his goals ever since. This is his story.

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Reaching street children

In this blog, our Head of Communications Emma reflects on how the power of books is helping street-connected children, and the adults who support them, change how their stories end.  

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Working together for reading

We recently brought our partners together at a learning event in Nairobi to share learnings and develop their capacity. We asked James, our East Africa Representative, to tell us why the event was so very important.  

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Partner voice: Sierra Leone Library Board

Since 2016 we’ve provided 376,117 books to readers in Sierra Leone. The Acting Chief Librarian at Sierra Leone Library Board, who receive the books, told us how they process so many!

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Ahmed's story

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.

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