Interview with ABC News (Building With Books)

Building With Books President and CEO Jim Ziolkowski talks with ABC News about BwB's history, its mission and its future.

BwB is a not-for-profit organization that engages primarily urban youth through after-school programs and in their classrooms. We integrate global education presentations into social studies classes, and through our after-school programs students contribute intensive community service while helping to build schools in developing countries around the world. In the past year, students in the U.S. contributed over 99,000 hours of service and have touched the lives of more 150,000 elders, homeless, disabled, young children and others through BwB. We have established these programs in more than 100 schools in New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. 97% of the American high school students we have worked with over the last five years are now in college. Since we began in 1991, BwB has built schools in remote villages of developing countries on four continents. We have just completed construction of our 250th school. There are now more than 100,000 children and parents that have attended BwB schools built world-wide.

Please feel free to connect with BwB here on YouTube. You can also visit our website at the following link:

http://www.buildingwithbooks.org/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Education
• Global
• Activism
• Local
• Engagement
• Poverty

[jonellejoseph]

hehe i just went to Nepal trek for knowledge 2011 it was amazing came back in March lol i would do it all over again but now we have now built 400 schools give it up to buildOn.

[Strictlydibes]

I went to Mali, West Africa also With my school Bronx Law Gov't and Justice in 2003! Wish i could still be a part of this beautiful organization!

[crownkingpin1]

i went to mali west africa with them when i joined through my high school Eagle Academy

[musiclovertothemax]

This is one of the best programs i have ever joined

[junior3003]

Join BwB is the best after school program!

[hswansey]

This is a phenomenal program.