Bookfriends International, NFP is a charitable foundation that places appropriate books in the hands of eager African students.

The enlightenment that sprouts and grows from well-placed classroom books and community library books provides hope and change.  Individuals, communities, and entire cultures can be positively affected by our educational materials.  So please help in our effort to supply these children and communities with the educational tools that they need.

Thank you for a great 2007, Steve Kutschat, President

Excerpt from a Rick Warren (author of A Purpose Driven Life) article about his visit to Africa:

I also visited a little school in a church where they'd adopted 25 AIDS orphans.  I asked the headmaster, "What is the greatest need for your school?  Is it a building? Is it more students? Is it a curriculum?  What is it?"  He said "Books.  We have no books."  How can you teach, how can a country be strong when its children are not educated.

How can a country grow and be strong economically when its citizens can't read or write and don't know the fundamentals of math and science, ....