Book Wish Foundation
We've brought together top authors in an amazing YA collection, What You Wish For. Proceeds will fund libraries in Darfuri refugee camps!
You can help bring libraries to 250,000 refugees from Darfur, just by sharing our tweets. We're all volunteers and giving 100% of our proceeds from What You Wish For to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, to fund development of the refugee camp libraries. Whatever books have meant to you -- education, inspiration, escapism -- imagine how much more they could mean to child victims of genocide, stuck in refugee camps for 8 years without appropriate books to read.
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About Book Wish Foundation
Book Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity providing high-impact reading aid for people in crisis, with a current focus on refugees from Darfur. We give some of the world's neediest readers the books they wish for, taking requests for specific titles and subjects. This helps ensure the books will be matched to the needs of the readers, and appropriate for their reading level and culture.
The populations we aid have very limited resources and are facing immense challenges for the foreseeable future. For them, books can play an especially large role in education, mental health, and job training. We search for the readers who will get the most out of our books because they have so little to begin with.
Maximizing the impact of books also means maximizing the number of readers, so we will provide reading glasses, vision screenings, support for literacy programs, solar-rechargeable lighting where there is no electricity, or any other aid that can effectively increase the audience for our books.
The populations we aid have very limited resources and are facing immense challenges for the foreseeable future. For them, books can play an especially large role in education, mental health, and job training. We search for the readers who will get the most out of our books because they have so little to begin with.
Maximizing the impact of books also means maximizing the number of readers, so we will provide reading glasses, vision screenings, support for literacy programs, solar-rechargeable lighting where there is no electricity, or any other aid that can effectively increase the audience for our books.
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