Books With Wings is a collaborative project between Canadian students and their counterparts in Afghanistan. Donated textbooks are collected and shipped to libraries at various universities and medical schools across Afghanistan. This project is important because the civil wars there destroyed much of their educational materials As of August 2011, we have sent approximately 11,000 up-to-date medical books worth nearly $1.6 million. In our most recent shipment, we sent over 70 boxes of books from the University of Manitoba alone, which was part of an overall shipment of over 4000 books from Universities across Canada. Please visit our facebook page if you have questions or want to find out how to help out. http://www.facebook.com/groups/144095265683921/