Books for Africa

Dear Environmental Science Students,

My name is Ana Perkovic and I am writing to you on behalf of University of Guelph’s Books for Africa team. We are running a Better World Books campus book drive to benefit Books for Africa (www.booksforafrica.org) and we would love to have your support! Our goal is to collect 1,500 books during our book drive - please help us by donating any university and college-level books from the past 5 years that you no longer need!

Starting on April 9th, 2007 we will set up big green and white collection boxes at the University Bookstore, Coop Bookstore, University Centre courtyard, and Science Complex, which will remain up until April 21st, 2007.

Please donate any books you are unable to sell back at buybacks! Many of these books will be sold online to raise much-needed funding for Books for Africa (100% of profits, after all costs, will go to BFA as unrestricted funding), and some books will be directly sent to BFA and distributed to African countries in need.

In addition, Better World Books will donate fifty cents for each qualifying textbook to benefit two University of Guelph Chapter Clubs - Habitat for Humanity and Best Buddies. With your help, we have collected over 5,500 textbooks since Fall 2005, and raised over $1,800 for Habitat for Humanity and over $250 for Best Buddies! We thank you for your continued support towards improving world literacy and enhancing local social initiatives!

Please spread the word about our book drive to all your friends, classmates and professors.
Best wishes and good luck on exams!

Ana Perkovic
Co-executive Chair, Personnel Director
Books For Africa Team
University of Guelph
aperkovi@uoguelph.ca