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In May 2019 UAE-based development non-profit Dubai Cares and the International Publishers Association (IPA) signed an MoU wherein Dubai Cares committed USD 800,000 over four years to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration in Africa.

As the administrator of the fund, the IPA formed the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund Committee to select the projects to support. The Committee consists of IPA Vice-President, Bodour Al Qasimi, plus senior publishers from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia.

Support for Libraries

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Library Restoration

In addition, Kenyan library restoration project Book Bunk was assigned $50,000 plus a $10,000 book bonus from Big Bad Wolf, via Dubai Cares. Book Bunk’s mission is to restore the historical McMillan Memorial Library, in Nairobi.

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African Rural Libraries Initiative

The final beneficiary of the 2019 IPA APIF is to be an initiative to support the provision of a library to a rural African community. On 3 March the APIF Committee agreed to make a $10,000 donation to an established project called Exposing Hope, which is building a library at the Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya.

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