Founder Richard Gordon | Website Official website | |
Type Philanthropic, non-profit, non-governmental organisation Purpose Provision of books for students in Afghanistan Headquarters University of Manitoba, Canada Location Afghanistan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States | ||
Books With Wings is a philanthropic educational organisation, based at the University of Manitoba, Canada. It is a collaborative project between Canadian and American students and their counterparts in Afghanistan to provide books for universities throughout Afghanistan. A United Kingdom Chapter was formed in 2015.
The organisation owes its inception to theoretical biologist Richard (Dick) Gordon.
Books sent to Afghanistan were originally mainly medical and science textbooks, but the range has since expanded to include material covering multiple disciplines such as accounting, business, computer science, education, engineering, English, history, law, literature, mathematics, medicine, midwifery, public health and science.
Sally Armstrong provided critical support to Books With Wings, and devoted half a chapter of one of her books to it.