Humanitarian Aid for the Mind
Sabre Foundation and Shipments to Arab/Muslim Countries
Between 2001 and 2007 Sabre Foundation sent more than 530,000 new books and CD-ROMs—with a fair market value of over $19 million—to Arab and/or Muslim countries. See full Story
New Books for Iraqi Universities
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Many fine charitable organizations attend to humanitarian needs associated with displacement and hunger. What is often lacking is the foresight to provide humanitarian aid for the mind: support for the educational infrastructure vital to countries in either conflict, or in transition, or countries that are already on the road to development. Education must surely be the long-term key to not only ensuring localized stability and prosperity, but also to peaceful co-existence and understanding between nations.
Now in its 20th year the Sabre Foundation's Book Donation Program is a highly effective and creative way to assist in areas of the world where access to learning, for one reason or another, has been inhibited. See highlights of Sabre's achievements.
Sabre's Book Donation Program is renowned for its quality - for a statement of Sabre's Book Donation Philosophy - click here.
Reports of the demise of the book are premature. If this holds true even in countries that are digitally advanced, then the implication to be drawn has to be that in developing and transitional countries, the book is as vital as ever. For an overview of the state of the global book publishing industry see Andrew Grabois’ article “Bound for Success,” kindly made available online by Foreign Policy: to download article click here.