Our distributor will be ALAD
ALAD (African Literacy Art & Development Association, Inc) was established in 2002 as a non-profit, 501 (C) (3), organization. ALAD help communities of rural Ghana become self-sustaining places to live by promoting literacy and small business development.
James B. Lancaster, Jr., President of ALAD, son of a former World Bank employee, and his wife have been living in Sub Sahara Africa and especially in Ghana for many years. Both have been working, at some point, with Peace Corps.
In 2006 ALAD inaugurated a pre-school and literacy center in the village of Gomoa Maim in the Central Region of Ghana. The Ghana Education Service provides teachers. More than 80 pre-school students are in attendance.
In June, 2007 ALAD, with the assistance of a grant from the Naples Council of World Affairs and private citizens of Naples, Florida, began the construction of a 2800 square feet community library and resource centre in rural Whuti, Volta Region. The facility will serve a population of more than ten thousand students and adults from the surrounding villages. The construction will be completed in early 2009.
Also, in 2009, ALAD is expecting to supply books from the World Bank Book Project to the Whuti community library and up to fifty other schools and libraries in the Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, and Volta regions of Ghana.