If you would like to make a donation to PQG, you can do so by check or credit card:

PQG website (in french)

Partage Quebec Guinea (PQG) is a Quebec-based organization that in its six years has collected and sent over 600 000 books to Guinean school kids in over 1200 schools in Gaoul, Koundara, Mali, Lélouma, Télémélé, Fria, Koubia, Dinguiraye, Mandiana, Beyla, Lola and Yomou. It soon hopes to deliver books to students in Tougué, Dabola and Kourossa. This is a great organization, but it desperately needs help. It's based in Quebec, the president is a 65 year old man, and they've been getting more books than they can handle.

They collect grammar books, dictionaries, literature, sociology, philosophy, hygiene, and children's books, written in French, from donations throughout Canada. For a complete list see http://www.pqg.qc.ca/prep.html. Each participating class receives 4 boxes of books, about 200 books, and each teacher receives a Larousse dictionary.

PQG needs money to buy boxes and maybe to rent storage space, so they can pack the books and ship them to Guinea. They also need money to pay workers to help them pack the books. They don't need shipping money. They get free shipping from Canada to Wilmingon, N.C. from ALCAN, and then shipping on to Guinea from the mining companies ALCOA and HALCO MINING. (info from their website)

Empty spaces in shipping boxes are stuffed with goodies such as t-shirts, school supplies, and toys.

Projects are evaluated by a committee composed of members of PQG, a representative of CECI (Centre Canadien de Coopération Internationale), and a representative of the Minister of Education in Guinea.