Worldwide Book Drive is excited to announce its largest single donation of books since its conception in 2006. Worldwide Book Drive donated 55,951 books to the World Trust Foundation Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

The World Trust Foundation will partner with several other non-profit organizations and others entities for the “Feed Las Vegas” service event where over 3,000 families will receive thanksgiving dinner, a weeks worth of food, toiletries, and other supplies. The books will be distributed to individuals, families, and homes during the event.

The donated books include adult literacy novels, juvenile novels, and children’s books.

Worldwide Book Drive is happy to participate and contribute to the drive.

Dilpreet Khalsa, President of the non-profit organization Books for Success, will soon be receiving 11,000 books from Worldwide Book Drive. A private shipping company donated their services to Books for Success and picked them up Monday, November, 10, 2008.

The books donated include assorted children’s books, juvenile novels, and many classromm sets of various titles. Dilpreet and Books for Success personally deliver the books to classrooms, public youth organizations, and other recipients where young people will have access to them.

We here at Worldwide Book Drive admire and praise Books for Success for their work. Worldwide Book Drive is happy to work with such a great group of devoted people.

On September, 26 Worldwide Book Drive shipped a semi-trailer carrying 32,593 books to Books For Africa. These books were collected from a number of generous contributors. The books will be distributed to a number of different countries and communities. Since its beginning in 1988 Books For Africa has donated over 20 million books. As a promoter of global literacy, Worldwide Book Drive is truly honored and happy to contribute to the cause of Books For Africa.

We here at Worldwide Book Drive were able to donate 10,924 Chidren’s books, juvenile novels, and elementary school text books to the Ken Deyhle Foundation. Ken Deyhle personally delivers books around the world to communities, education systems, and other organizations that need books. WBD is pleased to help improve literacy, education, and the world little by little. We also commend and appreciate Ken Deyhle for his efforts in making sure books get into proper hands.

Worldwide Book Drive presented just under 4,000 books to The Ken Deyhle Foundation on September, 4, 2008. The books included childrens’ books, juvenile books and novels, and elementary level text books. The Deyhle Foundation distributes these book to international communities in need of literacy education material. Most recently, WBD was able to supply books to supplement Ken Deyhle’s own collection which was donated to a number of schools, communities, and hospitals in the Philippines. We at WBD appreciate Ken Deyhle’s hard work and his dedication to maximizing the value of books.

Worldwide Book Drive is excited to announce that Shelby Nelson will be working on his Eagle Project with us. Shelby is from Clinton Utah. He is a Senior at Clearfield High, loves music and to play the trombone. He also likes to work with his hands. He loves welding and is in his third year in school. He and his family love spending time together at their cabin near bear lake.

Shelby shared of his thoughts and feeling about why he felt a book drive is a worthy cause for his Eagle Project. Shelby said, “The reason why I chose the book drive is because I had a hard time reading when I was little. I didn’t like to read. My mom tried really hard to help me. As I got older I had to read in school and I just want others to get a chance to read and to be able to have a chance to love it and to learn all that they can. Reading is good for the mind and I like it now. With the book drive I have a chance to help others get the chance to read and learn new adventures.”

Thank you Shelby. We are looking forward to working with you!

Salt lake City’s book philanthropist, Ken Deyhle, received over 4,000 books from Worldwide Book Drive last week on August, 20. The books were a combination of children’s books, juvenile novels, and new elementary level text books. The books were collected from a wide spectrum of sources. Ken Deyhle hand delivers the books to their destination. All the books will be going to emerging education programs in third-world countries. We are happy to work with Ken Deyhle in promoting literacy and Education.

To learn more about Ken Deyhle visit: http://www.thedeyhlefoundation.org/site/Home.html

Dallin is a 12 year old boy scout from Farmington, Utah just completing his Eagle project. He likes many things and usually sticks with them to the end. He is a black belt in karate, has played the violin for 7 years and he is starting the 7th grade at Farmington Jr. High.

His project was a huge success! He has collected 5,696 books. Those are
broken down into the following categories: 2,690 books for adults; 945
educational books; 964 books for children; 62 reference books; 280 juvenilebooks; and 755 books for recycling (preliminary count). Dallin decided to do a book drive, after learning about Worldwide Book Drive, because he felt the project could benefit thousands of people all over the world. It is neat that some of the books are donated locally, and that many will make it to third world countries, where resources are so scarce. With the help of Tanner and Worldwide Book Drive, he was able to complete his entire application in under one week, and the entire project has been completed in under one month from start to finish!

Russel Langford delivered over 1,200 books to complete his Eagle Project. Russel worked with his family as well as other scouts to spread fliers around his neighborhood and city. He later returned and collected books which he later sorted, boxed, and brought to Worldwide Book Drive’s warehouse to be distributed in order to maximize the value of each of the books. We here at Worldwide Book Drive appreciate Russel and his hard work. Congratulations on a job well done, and you’re final step to becoming an Eagle Scout!

Worldwide Book Drive is pleased to have worked with Lori and Michael Pavacic of Heber Utah to collect and donate 5,000 books for schools and students on a Shoshone Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Worldwide Book Drive donated over 2,800 of the needed books that will accompany backpacks, binders, papers, and other school supplies that will be delivered to students. Lori and Michael Pavacic work with different organizations every year to provide books and school supplies to school systems in need. Worldwide Book Drive has helped them in the past two years to achieve their goals in supporting education in literacy. Good job Pavacics!