Talk:READ Tanzania
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Article needs some rewriting - READ International has changed significantly.
[edit]The article claims "READ International is a charity (NGO) that aims to improve access to education in East Africa by relocating books which are no longer needed in UK secondary schools to Tanzania."
However, this is no longer the case. They now give collected books to Better World Books, a for profit organisation that resells all the books they can and simply donates a percentage of their profits to charities.
From the READ International Website:
"Now, there have been a lot of changes to READ recently, and I don’t want to mislead you. The books you donate no longer come straight to Tanzania. To be honest, it’s because some of those awesome books in the UK don’t work so well here with our students, but donating your books still makes a huge difference. When you drop a book in a READ book bin, that book is packaged by Veolia and prepared to be picked up by Better World Books. Better World Books goes through the books from the READ bins and decides what can be sold online and what needs to be recycled."
I also notice they don't seem to actually claim to be a charity on their website, as far as I can tell. I can't find "charity" or "non-profit" on their website.
If no one else makes the changes soon, I'll try, but considering that "READ International", as it currently exists, appears to be totally different from what the opening paragraph in the article says, I think the significant re-write required might be above my experience level. I don't know much about charities or Wikipedia.