Ihezie Foundation

Ihezie Foundation Ihezie Foundation provides millions of books to schools across Africa and the UK through partnership with UK booksellers who donate excess stock.

Ihezie Foundation is a charity dedicated to helping people lift themselves out of poverty by providing wider educational, medical, social and economic opportunities. We believe is that it’s through education and wider educational opportunities that children everywhere can be lifted out of the grip and despair of grinding poverty that afflicts so many of the world’s children. To that end our first

ambitious aim is to send several million educational books to schools, libraries, universities – in fact wherever they are needed – throughout Africa. Our mission is to recognise and uphold the dignity of all, to promote educational opportunities, to encourage and support improvements in public health and to bring hope and practical help to all through the widespread provision of educational books.

Address

33 Burners Lane
Milton Keynes
MK113HA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441908269824

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Ihezie Foundation is a charity dedicated to enabling children and young people to achieve the educational, social and economic advantages of accessing a wide range of books.

From the beginning in 2015, the trustees, staff and volunteers have been working to supply high-quality books, donated by UK book-publishers and booksellers, to children and young people who need books to get the very best from their education.

Books donated to Ihezie Foundation are sorted, checked and packed by staff and volunteers. We want to ensure that we deliver only good-quality, relevant books. We deliver them to school libraries in the UK and Africa and university libraries in Africa. Books are delivered to UK schools in vans and trucks, carrying at least 10 000 books. Each school receives around 2000 books - enough to give their school library a massive boost. Books going to Africa are delivered in shipping containers carrying hundreds of thousands of books. Children’s books and text books are very expensive in Africa and most schools have very few. Even university libraries cannot meet the study needs of the future doctors, engineers, teachers and health care workers that Africa needs to fulfil its huge potential. In the UK, books for the school library have to compete for priority with school repairs, equipment, replacement teachers and the welfare needs of children, some of whom don’t have many books at home.

Wherever books are delivered, they have a huge impact on the education of the children and young people. These young library-users will be the next generation of leaders, problem solvers and skilled workers, helping address the issues facing their communities. Books lift young people beyond the limitations of their own local worlds and enable them to dream dreams and then realise them.