| By Jessica Edwards |
虽然我花了我大部分时间盖尔国际营销团队一起工作，我也是一个出版商大使慈善援助预订国际。金宝搏彩票参观圣智仓库去年和学习操作流程，包括书籍报废后，我受到启发，研究扩大的图书被标记为制浆生活的方式。我碰到图书援助国际，一个历史悠久的慈善谁货物从英国出版商新书出来撒哈拉以南非洲因此来了，并立即与他们的工作的价值和规模留下深刻印象。
The charity not only accepts book donations, but establishes librarian training programmes and funds refurbishments at partner libraries in sub-Saharan Africa and the occupied Palestinian territories. Some of these libraries are in communities with a very limited access to books such as refugee camps, prisons, and slums, others are in hospitals or universities where resources are extremely dated. Book Aid International works with some of the largest UK publishers, and all the books shipped abroad are new. In 2016, they sent over a million books. They also work with local publishers to source books in local languages.
It can be hard to appreciate quite how desperate the need is, but a few particularly powerful stories go some way towards demonstrating. The Menelik II Referral Hospital in Ethiopia is a hospital with no internet connection, and therefore no online resources. Thus, the library is vital for medical staff to access the up-to-date information they require. Nearly all the books in the hospital library are provided by Book Aid International. Samuel’s story in the video below is also a powerful indication of how the work of Book Aid International helps individuals pull themselves out of poverty. The video also outlines the charity’s many achievements over the last year.
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