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A personal appeal from Rageh Omaar
On 11th June, Rageh Omaar will present our BBC Radio 4 appeal. In this blog, he tells us why he’s so pleased to support our work.
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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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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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Join us at The London Book Fair
Hear from our new Head of Operations, Mark Simpson, about this year's London Book Fair.
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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 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.