KBAKeeping Books Alive
THE PURPOSE · 01 / 04
Help build small community libraries, supply books and learning materials, and back the local people who help children read. We’re starting in Utah, with a wider purpose that reaches beyond borders.
A PLACE TO LEARN · 02 / 04
Food, clean water, and safety come first. Alongside those essentials, children deserve places to read, imagine, and learn.
BEYOND BORDERS · 03 / 04
Book and library-kit purchases help support our work, alongside preparation and operating costs. Our wider goal is small libraries, locally chosen books, and support for the people who bring stories to children.
LOCAL PEOPLE. LASTING CARE. · 04 / 04
We’re launching in Utah while keeping Gaza and other underserved communities overseas at the heart of our longer-term purpose. Local partners and overseas projects are still to be confirmed.
ESSENTIAL NEEDS. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.
We know that food and clean water are the most urgent needs for families facing crisis. Our work to expand access to books begins with that understanding.
Food and clean water remain essential. We also encourage direct support for food relief through World Food Program USA, which supports the World Food Programme’s work against hunger.
KBA’s book and kit sales help support library work alongside preparation and operating costs. Our international purpose remains: small libraries, books, learning materials and local leadership. Past food-relief giving is recorded separately below. You can also give directly to World Food Program USA.
STARTING CLOSE TO HOME
Become a local host, start with a pickup kit, or find books at a confirmed library. We’re building a practical local beginning while pursuing the international mission.
SMALL LIBRARIES. SHARED POSSIBILITIES.
KBA’s role is to help create small free libraries, supply resources and back the people who make them useful. Utah is our launch site. Gaza remains an intended overseas focus, with the hope of supporting more communities over time. Local people will help decide the ages served, languages, collection and practical approach.
Small book-sharing libraries and existing community spaces keep the approach practical. An overseas library must be shaped with a trusted local partner, including a safe place, appropriate books, ongoing care and feasible delivery. No overseas installation or shipment has been confirmed.
We will prioritize locally appropriate Arabic books, with English or bilingual books where useful. Local sourcing and donated books will be considered together, based on need and feasible delivery.
RESOURCES FOR READING
A locally shaped funding plan
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A funding target will be set with a confirmed local partner. The former construction target has been retired. Past building-project records are kept separately; no funds are automatically reassigned.
The $350 donated to World Food Program USA is separate. Reserved books and unconfirmed pledges are not cash received.
Books chosen for the readers, notebooks, creative materials and portable storage where needed.
Fair pay, communication, training and practical support for a local librarian or coordinator.
Local purchasing, feasible delivery, distribution and simple reporting on how resources are used.
We will publish a partner-informed budget before opening direct program fundraising. We are currently gathering interest and setting books aside. Donations for urgent food relief remain available directly through WFP USA.
HELP THE STORIES TRAVEL
We are looking for a trusted local organization and coordinator or librarian to help shape a small free library and reading program in Gaza. KBA would back their work with books, materials and financial support as funding becomes available.
Have education experience, a local connection, suitable books or practical support to offer? We would love to hear from you.
Planning stage: no local coordinator, delivery route or distribution has been confirmed. Please contact us before sending goods. Direct donations to this program are not open yet.
BUILT ON TRUST
Confirm a trusted partner and coordinator, then agree what children and families need.
Set a practical pilot budget for books, materials, coordinator support and distribution.
Report funds received, spending, resources delivered and activities as they happen.
Direct gifts to World Food Program USA are separate from KBA. Reported international program funds remain separate from book and kit revenue, Utah placements and operating costs; historical records are not automatically reassigned.
THE NEXT HOME FOR A GOOD BOOK
Our donation collection focuses on children’s books, global history, science, adult self-help and useful learning. Books are selected for relevance as well as affordability; a low resale value alone does not make a book suitable to donate.
These books have not yet been donated. U.S.-specific politics, travel and pop culture, adult sexual material and unsuitable mature fiction are excluded from this program. The local coordinator will review language, age, content, condition and usefulness before distribution. Reserved books are not counted as delivered donations.
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These documentary photographs illustrate the wider purpose. They do not show KBA projects or beneficiaries.