SOME OF THE LATEST NEWS:
For more about Africa and literacy, read Doris Lessing’s December 2007 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize.
Attention all U.S. donors: postal rates increased on May 14, making our work more difficult. The U.S. Postal Service eliminated the M-bag possibility, both surface and mail, for books to Kenya.
The most economical way to send your books from the U.S. is by FLAT RATE BOX. You can pick up these boxes free of charge at the post office or make sure you mail your books in a square box. Twenty pounds or less of books mailed to Kenya will cost $37 at the post office, or $35.15 if you purchase your postage online. But if the box weighs above 20 pounds, the cost spikes up because priority mailing kicks in. For example, mailing 25 pounds of books to Kenya costs $126.75. SO better to keep each individual box of books at 20 pounds or less. Otherwise, mailing your donations could become prohibitively expensive.
Donors from other countries and continents: please check your mailing rates.
THANK YOU for all your contributions, which are making a difference in this region.
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I am a published author in AMERICA. I am interested in donating in donating books to this book drive.
The shipping from Canada is NOT $37. I have been researching in depth and there is no cheaper way to send books to the camel library from canada other than canada post. This costs approximately $100 per 20lb box. You should really put this information on your website, because I collected 1500 books specifically for your cause based on the shipping information on your websiting thinking i could ship them for $37 and obviously that is not the case.
Yes, thank you, Jess. Most of you who have sent from other countries have checked your country mailing rate, but I do not have mailing rates from other countries or continents, so PLEASE check mailing rates. And if anyone has a suggestion for Jess, let us know, and thanks.