Invisible Children Wants Your Books

Posted by admin on 01.20.2010 at 9:30 am

Today’s guest blogger Aaron King, one of our most amazing Better World Book Getters fills us in on the Invisible Children book drives and the impact your books are having in Northern Uganda.

Invisible children recently told me that we have 20 days left to “raise” 100,000 books.

And I was like, “What? You want me to hold a box of books up over my head”?

Ok, Ok… I understand the program: thousands of IC supporters across the country are feverishly collecting books which they ship to Better World Books’ warehouse where they are sold to generate funds to promote the peace process in Northern Uganda as well as rebuild and strengthen local schools.

And yes, whoever “raises” the most books wins a free trip to Uganda. But that is actually not important in the grand scheme of things. The real power of this program is the combined efforts of hundreds of book drives across the country.

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Invisible Children Needs Your Vote!

Posted by admin on 01.19.2010 at 9:30 am

Chase Bank is giving away $5 million to various charities through its Community Giving program and our partner Invisible Children is in the running.    Check out the video to see how they’ll use the money!

Cast your vote AND help spread the word.

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