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of 2020, BFA shipped 3.7 million books valued at over $ 38 million, 167 computers and e-readers containing nearly 300,000 digital books, and six law and human rights libraries to 20 African countries. More than $ 3.2 million was raised in the same year to ship these books to the students of Africa.
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