If you would like to request a box of books, please write a letter (either by standard mail or by email), telling us about your work, your students (if you are a teacher) and how you will use the books.   If you are using email, put your letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment, to Peggy Minnis at BookAid@aol.com.  After your introductory paragraphs, include the answers to the following questions:

1. your COS date,
2. the ages of your reading audiences,
3. the US grade equivalent of your reading audience (e.g., reading at grade levels 1-7),
4. the types of books that would be most useful (e.g., kiddie lit, preschool, environmental, high school math)
5. your mailing address, in English. If you have a problem getting mail in English, mention it here and include the graphic of your address in the language used in your mail system as an attachment (perhaps a .jpg)

If you are sending a request by regular mail, send it to
Peggy Minnis
Peace Corps Desk
Darien Book Aid Plan, Inc.
1926 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820 USA

Overseas shipments go through the regular mail system to your host country.  Shipments can take three months or more to get to your site.  The packages are stamped with "Used Books, No Value," so there should not be a problem with duties due.   Shipments to US Zip-coded Pacific Islands go via the US Postal Service and they take a little longer.  

Remember that Book Aid normally sends about 20 pounds of books, so think about the weight of the books you are requesting.  Don't send a long list that would require 150 pounds of books to fill.  Set your priorities.  If you absolutely need a class set of a book, tell us the genre you want; we seldom can supply an exact title.  We can't send a print encyclopedia anymore, unless you are in the Federated States of Micronesia.  Instead, we can offer you encyclopedias on CD ROM.

If you would like the teachers at your school to request the books themselves, please have them e-mail Mrs. Kitty Graves at KGraves41@gmail.com or see information for institutions requesting books.