Donate books!

With the opening of the New School, AFCECO needs books

AFCECO now has a contact in the military, making it possible to send items from the USA without paying for overseas shipping or customs duty.

Right now, with the opening of the New School, there’s an urgent need for periodicals, books and films (DVDs). Anything appropriate you can ship to the address below, will be a huge boost to the resource center.

Please, before you send anything, read the full list below of what is needed and what is not.

This is really a great need, as AFCECO simply can’t get such material in Afghanistan. Maybe you can get your local schools or community organizations involved – it’s such a simple way to help.

Send your book donations to:

AFCECO c/o
Flatley, Michael A MCPO MIL USA USFOR-A J3USFOR-A/NKC
ATTN: CDT
APO AE 09356

Types of publications we can use:

  • National Geographic Magazines are perfect.
  • Other periodicals like sports magazines, history magazines, science and nature all good, as long as they are not too technical.
  • Books: the resource center is being mostly utilized by 7th to 12th grade students. So try to feed their maturity level. Reading abilities run from beginner to intermediate to some very good. My best readers are reading Orwell’s Animal Farm.
  • Reference materials, world book encyclopedia, picture-filled reference books.
  • Secret Garden type stuff, Stewart Little type stuff, adventure stuff for young readers, perhaps Nancy Drew mysteries, etc.
  • For better readers short stories, parables, short novels with basic vocabulary. Old Man and the Sea, okay.
  • DVD instructional stuff.
  • Movies and documentaries that you think are appropriate, educational, worldly.
  • Cool maps, instructional things to put on classroom walls greatly appreciated.

What not to send:

  • No Dickens, no Sydney Sheldon, no giant historical novels.
  • No tiny, tiny print.
  • No gossip or teen types magazines such as People or Us or Teen.
  • No overly America-centric stuff, if culturally meaningless and uninteresting.
  • No VCR tapes, as that technology has gone by the wayside here as everywhere
  • No stationary, notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers and such right now.

Thank you so much!