AGS Volunteer Day in Support of "Books for Haiti"

On February 19, a group of AGS students and alumni gathered for a volunteer day to help sort books in support of the "Books for Haiti" initiative, conducted by the Biblion Project Association in partnership with the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders). They were able to sort and prepare approximately 2,000 books to be sent to Haiti, out of which half will go to Haiti State University, and the other half to the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for further distribution to Haitian libraries.

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières is a non-governmental organization founded in 2007 to foster access to knowledge and culture through reading in developing countries (see website). Biblion Project is an association founded by AGS students Brandon Roddey and Joseph Mangarella (School of International Relations, Class of 2011) along with other international students in Paris. The Biblion Project's mission is to support humanitarian initiatives in the domains of education and culture (see website). 

"By helping Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and Biblion Project to provide books to Haitian libraries, all of the volunteers who joined that day contributed to the long-term goal of enabling individuals to not only take charge of their communities, but to set out on their own paths of intellectual and social development." says Brandon Roddey, the president of Biblion Project.