November 24th 2024
VT Seva Atlanta’s Books for Africa Drive - A Huge Success!
On November 24, 2024, over 50 youth volunteers came together to make a difference through VT Seva Atlanta’s Books for Africa drive. Collectively, they gathered an incredible 1,500 books and 500 new notebooks for children in Africa.
We are immensely proud of our VT Seva youth for their generosity and commitment to empowering African children through education.
Education is the great equalizer, and books are the foundation of a strong educational system.
For many children in Africa, the gift of books is truly a gift of hope.
The collected items were delivered to the Books for Africa Warehouse, the only drop-off facility of its kind in the entire USA. This journey from collection to warehouse offered students a comprehensive perspective on their impact, emphasizing the significance of their efforts from start to finish
June 16th 2024
Why Books For Africa?
We believe that education is the great equalizer in the world, and books are at the foundation of a strong educational system. For many children in Africa, the gift of books truly is a gift of Hope
Access to an education is one of the only opportunities young people have to end the cycle of poverty and attain a better quality of life than previous generations. Books For Africa works to help children who otherwise would not attend school by supplying educational materials to reduce or eliminate education costs.
Most African children who attend school have never owned a book of their own. In many classrooms, 10-20 students share one textbook. Many people in the United States take these educational necessities for granted, but children in Africa cherish books.
VT Seva Atlanta team strives to create a culture of literacy and provide the tools of empowerment to African children. On June 16, 2024, we collected 1,500 Books and 500 Notebooks. This is the highest amount of books we have ever collected so far in a single book drive. Our youths are super happy to empower their African friends through Books of Africa project!
Dec 9th 2023
Atlanta VT Seva youths feel joy in sharing their books for their friends in Africa and we collected more than 1500 books on Dec 9, 2023. It’s a great eco-friendly project to re-use and recycle books to save on paper and also spread literacy in Africa. In 2023, Books For Africa shipped approximately 4,029,000 books, valued at over $32.6 million, to 32 African countries, the most books ever shipped by Books For Africa in a single year. We are very fortunate that VT Seva Atlanta has shipped 5,000 books in 2023 by conducting 3 book drives in a year and were able to do small contribution to spread literacy in Africa!
There is a saying by Dr. Seuss, ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go’, and we hope that our books will empower African children with knowledge and create pathways to accomplish their dreams. ‘Books For Africa’ is a simple project but its impact is transformative. It transform lives of African children and VT Seva Atlanta youths are very fortunate to be part of this positive transformation!
July 2023
More than 50+ youths participated in Books For Africa Drive today. We donated more than 1200 books for African children. It’s a kid-to-kid project - Atlanta Kids helping African kids in spreading literacy in Africa 🌍. Mehar lead this Books for Africa drive. This is our Round 2 of Books For Africa in this year. In April, we donated 1500 books for the same. They also need school supplies like crayons, pencils, erasers, notebooks, etc. and we'll do our School Supply Drive in Nov, it will be a Thanks Giving gift from Atlanta VT youths to African youths!
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