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We offer a free book collection and global citizenship workshop service to every UK secondary school.

We are the UK's one-stop-shop for book donations. We have a network of over 1,000 student-volunteers, based at 45 British Universities, and we accept ANY disused books from anyone and everyone in the UK - but note that we can only arrange free collections for schools or donations from individuals above 200 books.  We carefully sort the books, matching them to the Tanzanian/Ugandan syllabus and, if relevant, we send them to East Africa.  Any book not relevant to send (we don't take religious/political books for example) is sold online to generate much needed funding.  If it can't be sent or sold, we give it away in the UK or recycle it. It's a simple process. COLLECT, SORT, GENERATE, DISTRIBUTE, RECYCLE. After we've collected books from UK schools we even deliver a free workshop to educate school children about global citizenship and sustainability.

       To organise a Global Citizenship workshop or get fundraising support for your school click here or email us.

           

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