The International Book Bank distributes books and other educational materials to non-profit organizations that sponsor community libraries, reading rooms, and orphanages, in developing countries around the world. These materials have been typically donated to us by North American publishing companies and the education community, and we send them to programs that serve children, the needy, or the ill, who are learning to read and lack educational materials.
Volunteer at the International Book Bank this Summer! We need your hands and heart to help us sort, inventory, and pack donated books for shipping to those who need them overseas. This is a great volunteer project for workplace, college, or church groups. You will volunteer at our Southwest Baltimore warehouse for four hours on a Saturday, June 7, July 12, or August 16 (9 a.m.-1 p.m.). We urge you to sign up for these projects through BVU's Volunteer Central, a wonderful program for all those who love community service in the Baltimore area.
We celebrated our 20th Anniversary (1987-2007), and National Library Week, with the inspiring John Bul Dau - a leader of the Lost Boys of Sudan - to Baltimore on April 12th. It was a special evening in the gorgeous Central Hall at Enoch Pratt Free Library. We also honored McGraw-Hill Education, World Vision Canada, and CODE for their key contributions to the International Book Bank. Please go to our Event Page to read more about it and the John Dau Sudan Foundation.
We're now raising funds to send two containers of books to Duk County in South Sudan for their first-ever library. John Dau will go there to shepherd the containers to their final destination in his homeland in Fall 2008. Please click below to make a tax-deductible donation that will be earmarked solely to support these shipments of books to South Sudan. Thank you!
Heard about Project Love Sudan? Get your group on board! It's easy to participate: After registering, your group organizes "kits for kids" (usually paper, pencils, rulers, and erasers), raises a couple of dollars per kit to underwrite processing and shipping, packs the kits into boxes, and sends them to our warehouse in Baltimore. We will ship the kits to South Sudan. Click here to find everything you need - registration form, resources, checklist, and more.
"If you can read this, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all." - Donella H. Meadows
Last date updated: May 5, 2008.
