The Gift of Knowledge Tour

Piccolo’s Books has donated nearly two million Children’s Books to impoverished neighborhoods worldwide over the last few year. Our Gift of Knowledge Program helps children, schools and libraries with Free Books and Fund-Raising Opportunities in an effort to help further the education of our children; our future. Mr. Lewis constantly…

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The Mask You Live In

What is wrong with our boys today? Compared to girls, boys are two times more likely to flunk or drop out or school, boys are two times more likely to receive special education, and boys are four times more likely to be expelled. What’s even more worrisome is that the…

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MALAWI BANS CHILD MARRIAGE, LIFTS MINIMUM AGE TO 18

Originally published on EYEWITNESS NEWS LONDON on February 17, 2015. Girls are currently allowed to marry at 16 or 15 with parental consent, but many marry much younger. Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end…

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Piccolo’s Story

Every Week Piccolo gives away from 1,000 to 60,000 books…for FREE! Piccolo Lewis is committed to promoting literacy and getting books to the public. In the last two years, he has donated more than 450,000 books to schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach & Compton, Detroit, Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, the…

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