Books With Wings is a philanthropic educational organisation, based at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] The organisation was founded by Dr. Richard (Dick) Gordon, a professor of radiology at the University of Manitoba.

[5][6][7] The program began as a class project at the university's medical school, and the organization began shipping books to Afghanistan in 2001.

[6] Books sent to Afghanistan were originally mainly medical and science textbooks, but the range later expanded to include material covering multiple disciplines such as accounting, business, computer science, education, engineering, English, history, law, literature, mathematics, medicine, midwifery, public health and science.

[8] Shipment of most books was via Canadian Armed Forces and, except for one shipment of 32,000 books by The Idries Shah Foundation distributed by Books With Wings, shipments ceased when they withdrew from Afghanistan.