By Our Special US Correspondent
St. Paul, MN (USA) — As she wraps up her two-weeks visit to the Twin Cities of Minnesota (USA) on Wednesday, August 28, founder/CEO of Chinkelly Schools and former Delta State Education Commissioner Dr. (Mrs.) Veronica Ogbuagu met with leaders of Books For Africa (BFA), the NGO that has donated more than 28 million books to 48 African countries since 1988, at BFA’s headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota.
During the 45-minutes meeting with BFA Founder, Mr. Tom Warth, and BFA Executive Director, Dr. Patrick Plonski, Dr. Ogbuagu expressed gratitude to BFA for the books she received and for BFA’s commitment to ending the book famine in Africa. She showed the BFA leaders pictures of book distribution she has done to date. Mr. Warth and Dr. Plonski thanked Dr. Ogbuagu for her well-documented book-distribution work in Nigeria.
“I would like to thank you, on behalf of Books for Africa, for the work you are doing in your country; it’s admirable,” Warth said. “We are so excited to help the largest and, perhaps, the most important country in Africa,” the BFA founder added.
In February, BFA donated two 40-foot containers of books (about 44,000 volumes) to Chinkelly Schools to help end the book famine in Nigeria and Africa. And since February, Dr. Ogbuagu has distributed books to more than 10,000 school children in Delta, Edo, Osun, and Rivers states in Nigeria.
