Books for Schools (BFS)

Access to education is one of the only opportunities or tools young people have to end the cycle of poverty and attain a better quality of life than previous generations. Providential Aid Organization (PAO) works to help children who otherwise would not attend school by supplying educational materials to reduce or eliminate education costs.

In Africa, many children never experience the pleasure of reading a book together in a class, looking at the pictures and words to follow a story. As a result, many children don't develop a real love for reading, their thirst for knowledge is frustrated, and a child's imagination and aspirations are not given the same potential to develop and grow.

Wars, economic crises, poverty, malnutrition, and illiteracy have plagued many areas of Africa. According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 40 percent of school-age children in Africa do not attend school. Forty-six million African children have never set foot in a classroom or do not have any class mate in the kindergarten, so to speak.

Most African children who attend school have never owned a book of their own. In many classrooms, 10-20 students share one textbook. Many people in the developed countries take these educational necessities for granted, but children in Africa cherish books.

Books are a vital human right...there's no proper literacy without them, and no proper freedom without literacy." (Joseph O'Reilly). Books create literacy, which creates opportunity and a brighter future. With your help we can make a real difference in raising literacy, hope and imagination for an innumerable number of children.

Napoleon Hill once wrote in his 'The Master Key to Riches ' book, one's reading program should be as carefully planned as his/ her daily diet, for that too is food; without it one cannot mentally developed.”Every day, PAO receives letters and e-mails from people in many parts of Ghana who are in great need of books. A support in this direction for the organization will help us to meet the demand from these people and establishments.