DONATION PROGRAMS FOR BOOKS, JOURNALS and MEDIA
Organized alphabetically by the country that benefits from the donations. The International section lists programs that collect and distribute to more than one area. Visit the Geographic Index for links to individual countries.
The list is reviewed regularly to insure currency. If you discover that an agency has ceased activity or that information has changed, please let me know so I can update the listing.
Any active non-profit institutional or community program is eligible for inclusion. Please send address, contact information, and a brief description of materials desired, to Pamela M. Rose. Note that we do not accept listings from individuals seeking materials for personal use.
Guidelines for Donors
Contact the specific institution or program in advance to make sure it is still accepting materials and that what you have is what they need.
Sending inappropriate materials is more harmful than sending none. Plan your shipment by sorting, weeding, and discarding inappropriate materials before sending.
Medical and health sciences libraries with books and/or journals to discard may be interested in listing their materials with the Health Literature Exchange service run by the World Health Organization.
Geographic Index
Choose from programs in countries listed below, or visit the International section for larger initiatives which collect and distribute materials to many different countries.
Africa Argentina Armenia Asia Bangladesh Brazil Belize Bulgaria Cambodia Caribbean Chile China Colombia Croatia Cuba Ecuador Egypt Gaza Strip Guam India Iraq Kosova Latvia Macedonia Malaysia Mexico Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines Poland Romania Russia Tanzania United States Uzbekistan Vietnam
International
(Includes organizations which collect and distribute materials to many different areas.)
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
(Charity registered with BBI)
Mr. James P. Lanning
Directory of Acquisitions
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Phone: 301-680-6368
Fax: 301-680-6370
Books not more than 5 years old.
The worldwide humanitarian ARM of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with a presence in more than 120 countries.
Book Aid International
The Director
39/41 Coldharbour Lane
Camberwell
London SE5 9NR ENGLAND
Phone: +44 171 733 3577
Fax: +44 171 978 8006
Email: rls@gn.apc.org
Books for children and young adults; fiction; general nonfiction; primary, secondary, and university textbooks less than 15 years old. Medical books <5 years old. Law books from 1920-.
Distributes to developing countries.
Book Project of the World Bank Volunteer Services
1818 H Street NW, Room JB3 - 105
Washington DC 20433
Phone: 202-473-8960 or 202-473-6961
(Hours: 10-3, Mon - Wed)
Fax: 202-522-0301
Email: wproject@worldbank.org
Website: www.worldbank.org/yournet - go to the Book Project link
School textbooks, elementary to senior level, all subjects, less than 10 years old, English as a second language, Pre-school picture books,Stories for all ages, Teacher training material, College books suitable for continuing education, Vocational (crafts) books, Childcare and nursing books, French textbooks and stories for native speakers, Spanish textbooks and story books for native speakers, Encyclopedias and other reference books no older than 20 years, National Geographic magazines.
Please contact before shipping to confirm suitability of donation.
Donations of less than 10 boxes can be mailed to the above address or brought to the loading dock at 1775 G Street NW, Washington DC. Largerdonations should be sent to the World Bank warehouse in Maryland. Contact the Book Project for further information.
Distributes to schools in developing countries. A Book Request form can be downloaded from the website.
Books for Children of the World
Rev. David High
6701 North Bryant
Oklahoma City, OK 73121
Phone: 405-721-7417
Fax: 405-478-4352
Requesting elementary and high school level textbooks.
Books for the World
Park Burroughs, chief executive officer
1240 Alamae Lakes Road
Washington, PA 15301
Phone: 724-222-0549
Fax: 724-225-2077
Email: pburroug@cobweb.net
New books of all kinds for all ages of students are needed, as well as school supplies, particularly writing instruments and paper. Please inquire first before donating.
Books for the World provides books and school supplies to students most in need, wherever they may be. Since it was formed in 2000, the organization has shipped books, desks and chairs, supplies and educational equipment to a village school in Russia's Altai Republic; and most recently shipped 18,000 books to the State Pedagogical Institute in Novokuznetsk, Russia, to establish a library of English literature and American culture for the entire city. Future plans include equipping an orphanage school in Novokuznesk and sending books to rural schools in southern India (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu). Shipments are carefully organized to meet the receipients' specific needs.
Brother to Brother International, Inc. (BBI)
Nichole Churchill, Coordinator
Diana French, Program Manager
4025 S. McClintock, Suite 210
P.O. Box 27634
Tempe, AZ 85285-7634
Phone: 800-642-1616 (U.S. only) or 602-345-9200
Fax: 602-345-2747
Email:nchurch@wvus.org or mveitenh@mary.wvus.org
BBI works with US businesses that have excess inventory such as pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, seed, building materials, etc., and provides it to charities worldwide.SEE: Hetrick-Martin Institute
SEE: Surgical Aid to Children of the World
The Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF)
Tori Wolan, Program Director
International Education Program
1501 Reedsdale Street, Suite 3005
Pittsburgh, PA 15233 USA
Phone: 412-321-3160
Fax: 412-321-3325
Email:BBFOUND@aol.com
New books ranging from elementary and secondary to college, medical and general library books. Donations usually in large quantities of 20,000 volumes or more, 20 or more copies per title. BBF works with schools and other organizations administrating education and/or literacy programs.
The BBF International Education Program functions as a link between education resources and development through shipments of books and educational supplies which are necessary to establish and enhance literacy programs. Generous donations of up to 3 million new books from U.S. based publishers are sent to programs in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
To demonstrate BBF's commitment to global development, the Program's goal is to support educational enhancement in less developed countries through the dissemination of donated books and supplies.
Canadian Food for the Hungry
Contact: Judy Johnston
1225 Ave.W South
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada S7L 3J2
Phone:(306) 374-6776
Email: morey814@hotmail.com
Requesting medical equipment textbooks to establish a departmental library and medical textbooks of all types for distributio to developing nation hospitals all over the world.
CFHI supplies medical equipment and supplies to developing nation hospitals around the world.
Darien Book Aid Plan
1926 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820
Phone: 203-655-2777
Email:BookAid@aol.com
Medical books in the basic sciences and clinical medicine published in the last 10 years only. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical informatics books and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful. Send regular U.S. postal rate (NOT UPS) so the package will not be returned to sender.
Distribution to Peace Corps volunteeers, teachers, libraries, and schools all over the world and, in the United States, to libraries, prisons, hospitals, Native Americans, and Appalachia. New and used books addressing subjects including science, business, medicine, grammer, literature, classics, fiction, non-fiction, children's books, textbooks in most subjects. Only one magazine, National Geographic published in the last five years.
Direct Relief International (DRI)
Susan Fowler, Senior Program Officer
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-3251
Phone 805-964-4767
Fax: 805-681-4838
Email: dri@rain.org
Distributes Physician's Desk Reference. Provides pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and refurbished equipment to health facilities and health projects serving the needy in medically less-developed areas of the world. Provides emergency assistance to refugees and other victims of natural disasters and civil strife.
Interchurch Medical Assistance, Inc. (IMA)
c/o Brethren Service Center Annex
601 Main Street
New Windsor, MD 21776
Phone: 410-635-8720
Fax: 410-635-8726
Email: imainfo@interchurch.org
Medical books and journals in the basic sciences and clinical medicine published in the last 5 years only.
Interdenomination outreach. Provides medications, medical supplies and devices, medical textbooks, audiotapes, and journals. Donates worldwide. Call prior to sending donation.
International Book Project (IBP)
Attn: Ken DeGilio, Executive Director
1440 Delaware Avenue
Lexington, KY 40505
Phone: 859-254-6771
Fax: 859-367-0242
Email: info@intlbookproject.org
Medical and nursing books (less than 10 years old) and journals (less than 5 years old) in the basic sciences and clinical medicine. Basic subject textbooks - pre-kindergarten through graduate school level, as well as library books, medical and nursing books, and National Geographics.
Sends needed quality books to the most remote locations including schools, churches, communities, colleges in over 100 developing countries. In 1998, we shipped over 100,000 books - more than 100 tons! Our donors are matched with a foreign recipient who in turn sends a written thank you to the American donor establishing a global friendship. We promote literacy and global friendships one book at a time. Call for donations procedures and needs before sending. Supply list of materials prior to shipment.
Medical Library Association
65 E. Wacker Place, Ste 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7298
Phone: 312-419-9094
Fax: 321-419-8950
Email:mlams1@mlahq.org
Bound and unbound journals in the health sciences. Medical books and journals in the basic science and clinical medicine published in the last 5-10 years only. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical informatics books/journals and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful. Participation in the program is limited to institutional members of the MLA. Membership is open to established medical and health sciences libraries only.
Contact for a complete list of organizations to donate book materials.
People-to-People Health Foundation
Attn: Scott Crawford, Director of Gift-In-Kind
Carter Hall/Route 255
Millwood, VA 22646
Phone: 540-837-2100
Fax: 540-837-1813
Email: scrawfor@projhope.org
Medical books and journals in the basic sciences and clinical medicine published in the last 5-10 years only. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical informatics books/journals and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful. Send fax list of titles to verify they can use them.
NOTE: link is to the Project Hope homepage; specific information about book donations will be added in the near future. For now, contact Scott directly.
Primarily needs basic medical, nursing, and allied health texts. Occasionally will accept basic science, chemistry, physics, biology, and computer-related texts and business books. Donates worldwide.
Project Bookshare
Dr. Joyce C. Torio
Office of International Activities
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-872-4548 or 800-227-5558, x 4548
Fax: 202-872-6317
Email: j_torio@acs.org
College-level chemistry textbooks and back issues of journals not more than 10 years old. Submit a list of publications to be donated. Donor must assume shipping charges.
Distributes to limited areas in the U.S. and low-income developing countries worldwide.
Project Handclasp Foundation
Commander M.C. Tevelson, Director
Naval Base
San Diego, CA 92132
(619)532-1492
Publications available include educational, humanitarian and other goodwill materials donated to Project-Handclasp by individuals, service and religious organizations, and American industry.
Potential donors must contact the Director of Project Handclasp for specific criteria regarding the availability of space, packaging requirements, etc. for each donation. Materials approved for shipment must be delivered by the donor to the Project Handclasp warehouse in San Diego. The recipient must arrange for pickup of materials when advised by the Project Handclasp coordinator in the overseas port.
Sabre Foundation
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 868-3510
Fax: (617) 868-7916
Email: sabre@sabre.org
Contact: Tania Vitvitsky, Project Director
Materials needed: new books, journal subscriptions and special collections in business, economics, computer science, engineering, English language and literature, medicine, science, law and social sciences. In each country, a designated non-profit partner organization, or affiliate, is responsible for title selection, identification of recipient institutions and countrywide distribution. From inventory lists provided by Sabre via e-mail, partners are able to select titles and quantities. The books and journals are then packed at Sabre's warehouse and sent in ocean freight containers (holding on average over 20,000 books). On-going programs receive between one and three containers per year, depending on the size of the program and available funding. Prospective recipients are encouraged to contact the in-country partner organization for information on obtaining donated books. A list of partner organizations and affiliates is available on Sabre's web site.
A charitable organization and a registered private voluntary organization with the US Agency for International Development. Sabre's Scientific Assistance Project specializes in providing educational and professional materials to institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and selected countries in other regions of the world. Since 1986, Sabre Foundation has donated more than three million books and journals overseas. More than 200 US and European publishers have contributed new texts.
Surgical Aid to Children of the World
Ellyn Bronsther
195 North Village Avenue
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Phone: 516-374-4118 or 516-295-1991
Fax: 516-374-0533
New Journals/medical books, 5-10 years old.
Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC)
Attn: Indira Biswas Benbow, Administrator
P.O. Box 49
St. Albans
Herts AL1 5TX
United Kingdom
Phone: (44 1727) 853869
Fax: (44 1727) 846852
Teaching equipment, books and slides covering most aspects of primary health care, surgery, anaesthetics, nutrition, and other topics at district hospital level. Books and slides on the subject of AIDS are especially needed.
Distributes low cost health books, slides, and teaching equipment to developing and needy countries.
United States Book Exchange (USBE)
John T. Zubal, President
2969 West 25th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: (216) 241-6960
Fax: (216) 241-6966
Email: usbe@usbe.com
Periodicals in all academic fields, with greatest strength in medicine, science, technology and information processing.
Each week USBE sets aside for free distribution to libraries in developing countries and libraries that have severe budgetary problems in all other locations hundreds of bound volumes and thousands of unbound issues of periodicals. Included in the selection are periodicals in all academic fields as well as magazines of popular interest. Dates of publication may vary widely. The Donational Program¹s greatest strength is in medicine, science, and technology, including computer science.
Libraries wishing to participate in the Donational Program must affirm that the periodicals received through the Program will not be sold and may be freely used by all persons who normally have access to the receiving
library¹s collections. Publications received from the Donational Program may be exchanged or given at no charge to other institutions.USBE regrets that it cannot provide specific titles or issues through the Donational Program but libraries are invited to become full members of USBE and make specific requests, following procedures detailed in the USBE SHELF LIST and at the USBE website (http://www.usbe.com).
Since 1992 when the Donational Program was re-activated, USBE has shipped approximately two million (2,000,000) periodicals to libraries in Tanzania, Uganda, Haiti, Philippines, Belarus, Pakistan, Peru, Ecuador, South Korea, and Vietnam as well as to several institutions in the United States.
At present USBE is equipped to send only full container lots of periodicals to libraries. Containers hold approximately 10,000 kilos packed in gaylord boxes on pallets. Receiving libraries are responsible for all preparation and transportation charges. USBE will make shipping arrangements as the receiving library requests.
Africa
African Universities Book and Equipment Support Initiative (AFUBESI)
Project Director: Dr. Callix Udofia
11 Association Avenue
P. O. Box 172, Ijeshatedo
Lagos, Nigeria
Phone: 01-545-6969
E-mail: afubesi1@yahoo.com
Requesting journals, magazines and textbooks published in the last 20 years in medicine, sciences, social sciences, humanities, business administration, economics, general education, information technology, library sciences, general reading books- literature, fiction and non fiction, atlases, encyclopedias and library equipment such as computers etc.
All donors will be acknowledged to the recipients of the materials.
Contact the project director for donation instructions.
AFUBESI is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political project functioning under the aegis of Development Trust Communications, primarily to distribute used books and library equipment to the libraries of African Universities and Schools. This pilot project in Nigeria is soon to expand to Universities and Schools in other 53 African nations.
Ajasin Foundation and Library
Contact: Dotun Atilade, Coordinator
1 Hussey street
Jibowu Yaba
Lagos, Nigeria
Phone: (234) 08023460521
Email: dotatilade2001@yahoo.com
Requesting books on development and general interest.
The Ajasin Foundation runs a library in Lagos and Owo.
Association for Higher Education and Development (AHEAD)
P.O. Box 864 Station "B"
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5P9 Canada
Tel: 613-727-2735
Fax: 613-727-0745
E-mail: ahead@aheadonline.org
Requesting medical books and journals not more than 5 years old.
A voluntary, not-for-profit and non-political organization founded in 1999 to contribute towards capacity building of higher academic institutions in Ethiopia. One of AHEAD's three programs is a book program which aims to send up to 1000 medical books and journals annually to the AAU Medical Faculty. The recipient of the shipment is the Medical Library of AAU but the beneficiaries include the Jimma, Gondar and Addis Ababa Medical Faculties. AHEAD works closely with University of Ottawa who support shipping and other costs in running this project. AHEAD also has an agreement with Ethiopian Airlines to ship books and journals to Addis Ababa at a special rate.
Book Aid Charitable Trust
Eliphas K. William, Founder and Program Coordinator
P.O. Box 57737
Nairobi, Kenya
Africa
Phone: +254 734 729 062
Email: eliphaskimathi@hotmail.com
USA Address for shipment:
Book Aid Charitable Trust
c/o Don Singleton Associates
3311 South 127 East Place
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74146
USA
http://www.helpingtulsa.org
A registered not for profit charitable trust fund whose sole purpose is literacy development through provision of books and reading materials to the less fortunate in the society. Currently Book Aid runs a resource provision tuition centre for the children in Kibera slums (the second biggest slum in Africa), providing tuition to children from 5-8pm under five fulltime volunteers six days in a week. Despite about 20 inquiries a day, we cannot take more than 40 children due to lack of resources. Book Aid also trains teachers and librarians in the government-run public secondary schools to ensure that donations of books are well utilized. Helpingtulsa is a non-profit based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which refurbishes used computers and donates them to deserving charities worldwide.
Requesting textbooks, exercise books, and fiction books as well as magazines in English, French and German at the primary, secondary, and college and university levels. Also pencils, pens and chalk for primary school children. We would love to get speciality journals and any other materials that can be used in biology, physics and chemistry labs. Computers (new or used) would also be most welcome.
We would be happy to assist with postage costs when we are able. Please contact us for details.
All donations will be highly acknowledged and appreciated.
We are also looking for partners in other African countries who would be interested in establishing Book Aid Africa program, and would be grateful for libraries willing to establish exchange programs.
Books for Africa (BFA)
Executive Director: Robert Kowalczyk
253 East 4th Street, Suite 200
Saint Paul, MN 55101
USA
phone: 651-602-9844
fax: 651-602-9848
Email:info@booksforafrica.org
Medical books in the basic sciences and clinical medicine published in the last 8 years only. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical informatics books, and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful. Atlases < 5 years old; Encyclopedias <8 years old or most current. Educational textbooks in medicine, science, social science and the humanities <8 years old. Accepts National Geographic, magazines on wildlife and animal life and other educational magazines. Secondary level textbooks; university textbooks in business and economics, political science, sociology, physiology, statistics, law, history, geography, pure sciences, business administration, languages, arts-journalism, general education, early childhood education, library sciences, primary secondary, and adult level teaching methodology. General reading including literature, fiction, non-fiction library books.
Contact for donation instructions. Distributes basic medical and nursing texts, not journals, to 18 African nations.
Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS)
Attn: Continuing Education Committee
#205-1037 West Broadway
Vancouver BC
V6H 1E3, CANADA
877-739-4708 or 604-739-4708
Fax: 604-739-4788
Email: office@cnis.ca
Medical books and journals dated from 1990 to present in English or Portuguese. Books concentrating on aspects of surgery in particular are needed.
Working in Africa to promote injury prevention research, teach basic surgical skills and assist medical libraries. Current working, with nationals, in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda.
Ceemez Organization
Contact: Cyprian Mezue, Executive Director
20 Enugu Rd, P.O. Box 1795
Onitsha Anambra State Nigeria
Email : Ceemez@Yahoo.Co.Uk
Phone: 08-037436090
Requesting books appropriate for children from 5-18 years old.
Ceemez distributes books and educational materials to youths who, for economic or other reasons, have little our no access to educational materials. Our mission is to give disadvantaged children the opportunity to read and own their first book; the most successful way to improve the reading skills of youths from low opportunity population areas is to increase their access to books.
Community Research Initiated Project Organisation
Chief Executive Officer: Rev. Eric Keelson
Box MP2875
Mamprobi-Accra, Ghana, West Africa
Phone: 233-21-0243984915
Fax: 233-21-323004
Email: interventionforce@yahoo.com
A non-governmental, non-profit, non-sectarian organisation whose mission is "To encourage, improve, and support human development." Based on our mission we send volunteers to the most deprived areas of the regions in Ghana to assess the immediate needs of the local educational institutions ,so that we can solicit help from outside organisations to supply books and computers to improve the quality of education. Some of these rural instituitions, especially the primary schools, have never seen a computer before.
Requesting books in math, english, general reading, sciences (physics, biology, chemistry), accounting, business, psychology, physiology, sociology, theology, bibles and their lexicons, literature, and encyclopedias at kindergarten/pre-school, primary, secondary, and university levels. We will also be grateful for donation of about fifty computers and printers for some of these instituitions.
Your donation will be acknowledged with receipts from the various institutions.
Ghana Christian Children's Fund
Contact: Prof. Dennis Amedzeame
President, Science Faculty
University of Ghana
Phone: 233-24-87088/233-24-779860
Fax: 23321500305
Email: ghanaccfund@africamail.com
Requesting books, periodicals, microfilm, audiovisual aids, and other teaching materials at the undergraduate and graduate levels in science, including subject areas of general-physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, nutrition, psychology, statistics, nursing, computer science, mathematics, food science, geology, medicine and other health science fields, as well as books on management. Also need materials such as computers, engineering tools,
printers, scanners, and other library electronic equipment. Also need laboratory equipment.The University of Ghana is an established co-educational institution serving 15000 students. We are currently experiencing financial difficulties. The staff and students of the science faculty humbly make a special appeal to help them establish a multi purpose faculty library to provide students access to electronic and multimedia resources.
The faculty shall pay for freight and other administrative fees out of their own pockets.
Help the Uganda Child Fund
Mr. James Obran
18D Towpath Walk
London, E9 5HX
Phone: 02076821067
Email: Hugandachild@aol.co.uk or Obran@aol.co.uk
Desperately need books in the following fields: medical, veterinary, economics, computer science, business, marketing management, agriculture, encyclopedias, secondary textbooks, University textbooks in political science, sociology, law, primary education, early childhood education, general reading including literature, fiction, non-fiction and library books. Also desparately in need of used computers and teaching equipment for schools.
A UK based charity organisation seriously committed to helping end poverty in Uganda. Desperately in need of books and supplies to send to Primary and Secondary schools in Uganda, primarily for children from very poor backgrounds. Books are very expensive in Uganda so that only well off families can afford to buy for their children.
Industrial Ecology Institute
Contact: Benny Wamalwa
PO Box 10749-00100
Muthaiga Shopping Centre, 1st Floor, Suite No. 7
Nairob, Kenya
Phone: +254 2 747076/742653
Email: iei@avu.org
Requesting books, journals and media in subjects of: Environmental science, Environmental economics, Environmental education, Environmental law, Environmental management, Environmental technology and Industrial science and management.
The Industrial Ecology Institute (IEI) is a not-for-profit organisation established in Kenya to support the small and medium-scale enterprises (SME) sector pursue sustainable production practices through research and capacity building. The Institute also serves as an information and technology transfer agency established to promote the principles and best practices of industrial ecology in the country.
International Educational Services
(Books to Schools in Ghana)
Natalie E. Gray, Ph.D.
385 Park Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Email: Kwabenya@aol.com
Books appropriate for primary and secondary school students, e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, teen literature, science books, geography texts and reference books.
Distributes books and supplies to primary and secondary schools in two rural communities in Ghana, West Africa, primarily to children who have never had real books.
Jerusalem Association Children's Home
Public Library and Information Center
Mr. Mulugeta Gebru, Managing Director
P.O. Box 41742
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Phone: +251-1-623358
Email: jach@telecom.net.et
USA Contact:
Rebecca Atnafou
After-School Strategist
2 East Read St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
USA
Phone: 410-415-5661
Email: RebeccaA@safeandsound.org
Requesting books, journals and media in subjects of: economic, educational, agricultural and health planning; governance; development; academic issues; business; career development; change management; communication skills; economics and finance; health and safety; human resource management; information technology; interview/appraisal, management/leadership, team building, training and coaching, and negotiation skills; psychology, sociology, social work and anthropology; quality customer service; reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias; UN publications on NGOs, DOs and donors; and works on Ethiopia and natural history, museum bulletins, and entomology.
A nonprofit organization providing assistance to orphan children and participating in development programs to support the urban and rural population in Ethiopia.
Kasese Community School For Orphans
Rev Chris Kiwanuka, Director
C/O CHRISTIAN SALVATION CENTRE
P.O.Box 5428
Kampala, Uganda
Phone: +256 75 629660
Email: kasese_sch@yahoo.com
A school in rural western Uganda providing education to children orphaned by Aids.The school has just constructed a small school library using funds from our Christian friends abroad. Started by an NGO called CHRISTIAN SALVATION CENTRE which caters to disadvataged children in Uganda, the school runs on a not for profit basis and is primarily funded by wellwishers and christian friends from the developed world. Unfortunately we`ve been unable to use the structure that was meant to house the computer centre because we`ve lacked the necessary material to put the centre to full use.
Requesting books that can be used by primary and lower secondary classes. We would prefer mostly those for lower secondary classes as they`re had to get in Uganda and thus quite expensive. Also requesting 40 computers and 20 printers to connect our children with the rest of the world.
Donors are kindly requested to pay postage.
Nairobi University Nursing Students' Association
c/o Anthony O. Ayieko,
P.O. Box 19676,
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 733 738 345
Email: aayieko@yahoo.com
Requesting books and journals of any age in the Medical and Nursing fields.
Desperately need books to begin a small library for students pursuing Bsc. Nursing programme at the University of Nairobi.
National Association of Biochemistry Students
Contact: Augustine Essine
University of Uyo
Department of Biochemistry
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
Nigeria, West Africa
email: uniuyo_bch@yahoo.com
Requesting books, journals and magazines at the undergraduate level in English. Topics should be mainly BIOCHEMISTRY, including: Introductions, Enzymology, Pharmaco-biochemistry, Pharmacology, Food biochemistry, Biochemistry of Protein, Lipid, Carbohydrate, Nucleic acid, Industrial biochemistry, Clinical biochemistry, Environmental biochemistry including toxicology, Genetic engineering, Molecular biology, Organic chemistry, Physiology, Anatomy, Plant biochemistry. Will also accept materials on contemporary issues. Postage must be paid by donors.
The association is poised to assist students in improving their academic performance by granting them easy access to materials such as textbooks, journals, magazines and other study materials on biochemistry.
Rivers of the World
Ben Mathes, contact person
PMB 357
5885 Cumming hwy. #108
Sugar Hill Ga. 30518
Tel/fax: 770-205-7355
Cell: 770-355-8168
Email: Ben@row.org
Urgently requesting French language books on nursing to replenish those destroyed by soldiers in the Congo.
An international exploration and development agency that targets remote rivers, ROW's current mission in the Congo is building a hospital in the middle of a war zone to help alleviate health problems of those living along the Sankuru River.
Teachers Without Borders-Nigeria HIV-AIDS Library Project
Contact Person: Raphael Ogar Oko
Alfred Diette Spiff Civic Center
Moscow Road
Port Harcourt , Rivers State
Nigeria
Tel: 234-8033170116
Email: raphael@teacherswithoutborders.org
Website: http://www.teacherswithoutborders.org/html/nigeria.html
Requesting books, journals, and magazines that deal with HIV/AIDS and general health education.
Teachers Without Borders is a a non-profit educational organization actively working in Nigeria to bridge the education divide through professional development of educators and establishment of Community Teaching and Learning Centers (CTLCs) as well as projects in emergency education, HIV/AIDS, Women Empowerment, and other initiatives for the realization of "Education For All Nigerians". We are also actively involved in educational programs on HIV/AIDS, and recently have approvals for three HIV/AIDS libraries in Nigeria at the School of Midwifery , University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital , Yala Community Teaching and Learning Center , Okpoma and Benue CTLC Markurdi.
Argentina
Centro Medico de Mar del Plata
Biblioteca
Leticia Lizondo, Head Librarian
San Luis 1978 3er. piso
(7600) - Mar del Plata
Argentina
Phone: +54-223 494 1316 or +54-223 492 2040/43 EXT. 126, 165, 160
Fax: +54-223 491 2571 or +54-223 494 1316
Email: biblioteca@centromedicomdp.org.ar or bibliotecamdp@yahoo.com.ar
Requesting books listed in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library; any other health related books no more than 5 years old in English or Spanish.
The library, which belongs to a non-profit organization for physicians, provides information services to more than 2000 physicians in all medical specialities. Located in a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Biblioteca gives services to the vast area of the south west.
A severe economic crisis that strongly affects its Argentina's health system, as well as currency devaluation and a rise in the cost of journal titles, mean we can no longer afford to buy books at all. Nor can we keep up our subscription to the 30 international journals that served as the only source of updated scientific knowledge for our professionals.
Donors should supply a list of materials prior to shipment as the Library may be able to pay for postage in some cases.
Jardin Maternal El Campito
Fundacion A.N.D.A.R
Adriana Patricia Novella, Director
Etchegaray 252
7600, Mar del Plata
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 54-0223-4650443
email: adrianapnovella@hotmail.com
Requesting childrens books in Spanish for ages 0-5.
The Maternal Garden provides basic necessicites to children of ages 45 days to 5 years old, but can only afford to give them breakfast, lunch and dinner from Monday through Friday, with no money left over for toys or educational materials. By donating badly needed reading material, you will help guarantee their right to learn, not just exist. Donors are kindly requested to pay postage, as funds are very sparse. Thank you!
Universidad Favaloro
Ing.Damian Craiem
Belgrano 1723 (C1093AAS)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Phone: +54-011-43781117
email: info@favaloro.edu.ar
Requesting books and journals published within the last 10 years in subjects of Kinesiology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics and Computer Engineering
A 4 year old University offering three Engineering programs, with a slowly growing library. The well know Argentinean economic problem and the 100% devaluation and the socio-economic situation make it very difficult to buy the specific technical books needed to support students at all levels.
Some reimbursement for postage may be available. Please contact Ing. Damian Craiem for more information.
Armenia
Armenian Medical Association
PO Box 143,
Yerevan, 375010, Armenia
Phone: (3741) 53-58-68
Email: armainter@hotmail.com
Contact in Armenia:
Gevorg Yaghjyan
Educational Committee, Chair
Phone: (374-1) 56-06-36
Fax: (374-1) 54-28-98
Email: office@plasticsurgery.am
Contact in the USA:
Mike Candan
Adjunct Assistant Professor
New York University
Phone: (718) 271-0170
Email: mcandan@mindspring.com
Requesting medical books and journals published within the last 10 years. Donors are requested to pay postage costs to New York.
Armenian Medical Association (AMA) is a newly created non-profit, non-governmental organization in Armenia with objectives to promote high-standard medical education and research, public health, advance ethical behavior by the medical profession and protect the integrity and independence of the both doctor and patient. Armenian Medical Association is open to all medical professionals from Armenia and abroad regardless sex, religion and political persuasion.As the Educational Committee of the national Medical Association, we are striving to provide the best educational opportunities to the students, residents and doctors in Armenia. Our goal is distribute donations received from abroad among several libraries, such as Republican Scientific Medical Library, Yerevan State Medical University library and University Hospital Library.
The New York based Fund for Armenian Relief has provided us with an incredible opportunity to ship donations free of charge from New York to Armenia. Our friends and colleagues in North America help us with this mission, collecting the books, packing and sending to New York.We believe that our effort is highly appreciated by the medical community in the country. As we receive their feedback, we strengthen in our goal of obtaining best of the world's medical literature and presenting it to the medical professionals in Armenia.Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any suggestions.
Asia
The Asia Foundation/Books for Asia
Gavin Tritt, Director
2490 Verna Court
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (510) 667-6475
Fax: ((510) 351-2602
Email: booksforasia@asiafound.org
Medical books in the basic sciences and clinical medicine published in the last 5 years only. Over 90% of books distributed are new; less than 10% are used books. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical information books and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful.
All books in the humanities, including American studies, Asian studies, international relations, law, etc. Books must have been published within the last 8 years (or be no more than one edition old) and should be in new or near new condition. Classics of literature are very much desired.
Contact to confirm acceptability of donation. Distributes throughout Asia
via Foundation field offices.
Bridge to Asia Foundation
Staff: Jeffrey A. Smith, Ed.D, (President) Newton X. Liu, Ph.D., (Vice-president) Alex Lee, B.A., (Program Assistant)
Correspondence to: 665 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108-2430
415-678-2990: fax 415-678-2996, email: asianet@bridge.org
Shipping addresses:
Bridge to Asia, Foreign Trade Services, Pier 23, San Francisco, CA 94111
Bridge to Asia, Follett Higher Education Group, 2211 West Street, River Grove, IL 60171-1800
Graduate, undergraduate, and professional level books in all fields of the medicine, humanities, the social, natural and physical sciences, including American minority cultures, theater, fine and performing arts, history, language, literature, and women's studies. Works of biography, letters and essays. Reference works including recent excyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, dictionaries, thesauruses, TOEFL and TESL books, and U.S. university catalogues.
Distributes books to universities in the People's Republic of China, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Bangladesh
Informatics Institute Initiative
Atif Rahman, Director
House 57, Rd. 27
Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
988 0765, 600948 Voice
880 2 882 6409 Fax
Email: info@informaticsbd.com
Requesting books in good condition in all subjects; particularly interested in information technology, computers, and all related subjects. Able to pay for transportation, preferably via land, from any and all points. Please contact before shipment.
Although the Informatics Institute is owned by Bengal Information Technology Limited (BITL), a for-profit agency, this initiative set up by Director Rahman is a charitable effort to make educational resources available to the information-starved population of Bangladesh. The Institute's small library, space, donated by BITL, is free and open to the community. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh, with 80% of its 10 million people living under the poverty line. The city is the worse polluted in the world, parks and other recreational areas are giving way to modern building. There are quite a few educational institutes but most lack proper library and research facilities.
Apart from some government and private institutes with exhorbitant prices and one public library, access to most libraries is impossible. Director Rahman hopes to build a proper library by year 2003 accessible to people from all walks of life.
Belize
Cornerstone Presbyterian High School
Albert Zantingh, Principal
P.O. Box 232
74 ½ Mile Northern Highway
Corozal District,
Belize Central America
Phone: 011-501-620-8040
Email: therockjesus@yahoo.com
Contact in the US:
Rev. Tim Tam
The Word At Work
1400 Wolflin Amarillo, TX. 79109
Phone (806) 342-3600
Fax (806) 342 3603
Toll Free (886) 890-WORD (9673)
Mobile (806) 671-9673
In order to better meet the educational needs of the students, we are requesting the following:
- Library Books
a. Good, clean fiction novels at the grades 7 to 12 reading levels.
b. Student-friendly books retelling world history (not textbooks)
c. Classical literature
d. Student-friendly science books (not textbooks)
e. Biographies of important persons in history - Computers (New or Used) and UPS Units
Best to send new or fairly new Windows-based computers. Older computers have not held up to the tropical climate and humidity.
Cornerstone Presbyterian High School is a school in the rural north of Belize providing Christian education to 170 children of Mestizo descent in a third world country. It is a ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Belize. The school has a small library and computer room.It has been difficult for the students to perform effectively without adequate books and computers to do their research.
Thank you so very much for your support in the education of Belizean children.
They are eager to learn.
Brazil
Fundação Eye Care
Renato Neves, President
Av Brasil 1368
01430-001
Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
Phone/fax 5511 30611551
Email: eyecare@uol.com.br
Journals, books and media in the area of ophthalmology published in the last 10 years would be appreciated.
A certified non-profit organization that provides state of the art eye care and eye surgery to poor people. They will gladly reimburse for shipping. Please contact first.
Universidade Do Planalto Catarinense (Uniplac)
Contacts: Valdemiro Hildebrando, Ph.D. or
Jose Francisco Da Silva, Librarian
Avenida Castelo Branco 170
Lages - S. Catarina 88509-900
Brazil
Phone: 55 (Brazil) 49 (Area Code) 251-1015
Fax: 55 (Brazil) 49 (Area Code) 251-1051
Website:http://www.uniplac.net
Email: uniplac@uniplac.net
Requesting books at both graduate and undergraduate levels, published in the past five years, in Portuguese and/or Spanish, and/or English, in the subject areas of medicine, odontology, psychology, social services, occupational therapy, biology, physical education, computer sciences, business economics, sociology, history, management, and geography.
Donors are kindly requested to pay postage, although in some cases we may be able to negotiate some reimbursement. Please contact before shipping.
Universidade Do Planalto Catarinense, founded in the 1960s in the central regional of the state of Santa Catarina, south of Brazil, is a non-profit educational institution - a fully accredited university which serves a region of about 20 cities. Our mission: "to promote the human formation, technic and scientific of the citizen, from the generation to the socialization of the knowledge, with the purpose of keeping the sustainable development of the region"The University has a significant socio-economic presence in the region with more than 5000 students, expected to increase to 10,000 students over the next five years. The library current owns just 25,000 titles, not nearly
sufficient for the increasing needs of its students and for the expected creation of new undergraduate and graduate courses.
Bulgaria
Bulgarian American Center
Attn: Iskra Gagova, Manager
P.O. Box 471
Varna 9000, Bulgaria, Europe
Tel: ++359 (52) 602-062
Email: bacvarna@abv.bg
In sore need of newer materials at the university/adult level published 1994 to date, particularly in the areas of Economics, Computer Science, Business Advertising, Marketing, Management, General Fiction in English, English Literature, and Recent Periodicals.
A language and culture resource center whose programs include the education center, Philosophy and Democracy, the musical association, the Varna Center for Alternative Conflict Resolution, and the English-Language Library. Begun in 1991, the largest Library of its kind in Bulgaria has over 800 members in the Varna community, many of whom are students from the local English language schools and the Varna Economic University. Donations will benefit the English-Language Library, who hopes that donors can subsidize postage costs if possible.
Cambodia
American Assistance for Cambodia (AAfC)
(a 501 (3) c tax deductible organization)
Attn: Gale Cogan
P.O. Box 782
88 Parkhurst Drive
Westford, MA 01886
978-692-5443
Email: gcogan@massmed.org
Need English language medical and nursing textbooks and journals published during the last five years, focused on clinical aspects of medicine and nursing (except for the New England Journal of Medicine). Also need pediatric books and journals for a new pediatric hospital. Contact first regarding journals to avoid duplication.
Developing the first and only medical library in the only free, non-government administered hospital in Cambodia.
Caribbean
Georgetown Secondary School Library
contact: Zena Myall, Assistant Librarian
c/o Georgetown secondary School
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Phone: 784-457-6382
Email: hazelmyal@yahoo.com
Requesting materials in the subjets of English Literature, English Language, Mathematics,
Science, Computer Science, History, Geography, Office Procedure, Technical Drawing,
Spanish, French, Social Studies, Food & Nutrition, Business Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Typing, Music Art and Wood Work.
Chile
Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura
(Chilean Northamerican Cultural Institute)
Library and Information Center
Contact: M.Eugenia Olguin Steenbecker, MLS, Librarian
Esmeralda 1069
Valparaíso, Chile
Phone/Fax. 56 32450 400
Email: infocenter@chilenonorteamericano.cl
Requesting materials in English in the following subject areas: Education (teaching English as a second language), Environment, Computer science, Psychology, Management, Applied Sciences, Pure Sciences, Arts, Sports, United States History, Geography, American Literature, Fiction, American Folklore and Costumes, Mutimedia materials (videos, films, etc.), and American periodicals (such as National Geographic, Fortune, Newsweek, American Homes, Forum, etc.)
The Library and Information Center, a non profit organization that serves different levels age community from children to elderly people, is very interested in receiving donations of bibliographic materials. Donors will be reimbursed for postage.
China
Medical Books for China InternationalAttn: Mary Zoe Phillips
13021 East Florence Avenue
Sante Fe Springs, CA 90670-4505
1-800-554-2245 (U.S. only)
(562) 946-8774
Fax (562) 946-0073
Email: mbci@aagl.com
Medical books and journals from 1985-current. Medical classics, textbooks, recent monographs, medical reference books, dictionaries, retrieval media, minutes and proceedings of international symposia and conferences, in all specialties (bio-medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, psychiatry, animal laboratory, veterinary medicine and allied specialties). Complete sets of bound journals are preferred. Audio tapes and video tapes. Scientific works and computer discs with notation of subject and PC compatability. Psychiatric, medico-economic, medical informatics books/journals and those which pertain to U.S. culture and health care organizations are not generally helpful.
Goal is to provide medical books and other medical educational materials to medical schools, libraries, research centers, institutions, universities and hospitals in the People's Republic of China.
Colombia
FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DE AMERICA
Mr. Hugo Parra, Head Librarian
Avenida Circunvalar #20-53
Bogotá, COLOMBIA, South America
Phone (571) 3376680. Ext.138
e-mail: biblios@zeus.uamerica.edu.co
Requesting books, journals and media in the fields of mechanical, chemical, industrial, and petroleum engineering.
A small, private university lacking funds to purchase foreign books for their library.
Croatia
Croatian Association for Promotion
and Application of Sciences (CAPAS)
GIULIANA VERBANAC
President
Karla Kranjca 16
52220 Labin
Croatia, Europe
++385 91 504 2650
++385 52 855 289
E-mail. dina.verbanac@pu.hinet.hr
Requesting English language textbooks, journals, tapes-video and audio, CD-s, dictionaires, atlases, encyclopedias, minutes and proceeding of international symposia and conferences in all all fields of sciences published no earlier than 1995,
with special attention to:
1) fundamental sciences: physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, astronomy and its combinations biochemistry, biophysics, astrophysics
2) field of psychology: especially emotion, cognition, personality and neuroscience
3) medical classics: anatomy, physiology,
neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and similar.
4) TOEFL, TESL and IELTS books, GRE general and subject test books in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Medicine and other sciences. Complete sets of bound journals are preferred.CAPAS is non-government, non-profit organization established with the purpose of advancement and popularization of knowledge in sciences and humanities, especially among youth by dissemination of ideas among students and professionals in the field of sciences (introducing courses, lectures, workshops, summer schools, publications).
Studenski informacisjki centar - Student Resource Center
Ksenija Malbasa, Manager
Isa loze 11
21000 Split
Croatia, Europe
++385 21 346-837
fax ++385 21 343-405
sic@st.hinet.hr
Requesting books of all kinds: graduate, undergraduate and professional level in medicine; the humanities; social, natural and physical sciences; American minority cultures; theater; fine and performing arts; history; language; literature; women's studies; works of biography, letters, and essays; reference works including recent encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, and thesauri; TOEFL and TESL books; and U.S. university catalogues.
A non-governmental organization founded by the Open Society Institute (OSI) offering information on study abroad.
Cuba
Cuba-America Jewish Mission
Dr. Meshabem
c/o El Patronato
Calle I no. 259
Esq Linea y 13
Vedado, La Habana
Cuba
for a local contact:
Cuba-America Jewish Mission
June Safran
Exceutive Director
444 34th St.
Oakland, CA 94609
(510) 526-7173
Email: cajm13@aol.com
Jewish literature and philosophy for all ages from four years old to 85 written in or translated into Spanish. Also need curriculum ideas and teaching materials for holidays, concepts of Jewish religion, and holidays. Spanish/Hebrew dictionaries and Spanish/English dictionaries would be useful.
A non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the revitalization of Jewish life in Cuba and to working to improve the physical an spiritual well-being of the Jews of Cuba. Part of this effort includes development of libraries emphasizing relevant works in or translated into Spanish.
Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico "Hnos. Ameijeiras"
Attn: Dr. Rafael Gonzalez Pupo
Servicio de Cirugia Cardiovascular
San Lázaro #701, Centro Habana
Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. CP 10300
Phone: 576021
Email: pupo@infomed.sld.cu
Requesting current journals and textboks of cardiac surgery and cardiology by authors such as Kirklin, Doty, Cooley, De Backey, Braunwald, and Hurst and others. Any materials relating to cardiology.
This small library serves as the center of reference for cardic surgery, serving 25 physicians as well as residents who come from all over Cuba for training. Dr. Pupo can also be contacted at Calle 23 Nro 86 esq a 24, Pueblo Nuevo .Holguin, Holguin .Cuba.
Ecuador
Fundación de Protección Animal
Elizabeth Daut, DVM
Casilla 11-01-356
Loja, Ecuador
América del Sur
Phone: 011-593-7-258-6821
Fax: 011-593-7-258-6821
E-mail: fpa@loja.telconet.net
The Fundación de Protección Animal (Animal Protection Foundation) in Loja, Ecuador is a nonprofit organization that provides veterinary services/referrals for pets, protective services for wildlife in the area, and education to the community on the protection of animals and the environment. The FPA has a small library to serve its community, which is predominantly Spanish-speaking.
Requesting scholarly materials in Spanish on subjects such as veterinary medicine, sustainable agriculture, animals/zoology (especially reptiles), environmental and animal protection law. With reference to the legal materials, it would be preferable if these materials were published within the last 5 years due to the dynamic nature of environmental law.
Please contact Dr. Daut for more information.
Egypt
Egyptian Students Association in North America (ESANA)
Mohamed Elfeky, Book Campaign Manager 2003
P.O. Box 5036
Lafayette, IN 47903
Email: book@esana.org
Requesting books and journals from all disciplines as well as PC hardware and software.
ESANA is a non-profit organization of volunteer Egyptian graduate students who pursue all or part of their graduate studies in USA and Canada. One of the objectives of the ESANA is to promote the cultural exchange and transfer of knowledge between North America and Egypt. Towards this objective, the ESANA book campaign project was initiated in the late 1995. The project deals with collecting donated materials to update the libraries of the Egyptian Universities and send them to Egypt.
Gaza Strip
Al-Aqsa University
Dr. Fouad M. EL-Harazin
P.O. Box 4051
Gaza Strip
Phone: 08-282-6819/809
Fax: 08-282-6829
Email: alaqsau@hotmail.com
Requesting apparatuses and tools for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and computer labs; materials in subjects of Education, Electricity, Smithery, Carpentry, Domestic Science, Language lab; books and other media on all topics for the library.
Due to severe economic conditions, only 30% percent of student fees which support the university are paid. The university and particularly its libraries are badly in need of support by donors.
Guam
Books for Education
USNH Junior Enlisted Association
HM2 Danny Prevou
PSC 490 Box 9126
FPO AP 96538-1600
Email: DVPrevou@gam10.med.navy.mil
Phone: 671-344-9203
Fax: 671-344-9057
Requesting donations of books in English for level K-12 in all subjects. Donors are kindly requested to pay for postage. Please ship to HM2 Prevou at the above address. Thank you!
Our purpose as part of the Junior Enlisted Association here at the U.S. Naval Headquarters is to help give back to the community. Resources in Guam are very limited, and it is sad that may children go to school with no books at all. We greatly appreciate any donations.
India
Health Education Library for People
Om Chambers, 5th Floor, above China Garden,
Kemp's Corner, Mumbai - 400 036
India
Phone: 91-22-368 33 34 or 368 10 14
Fax: 91-22-215 02 23
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 7 pm
Email: malpani@vsnl.com
Requesting consumer health books, videos, models and other patient educational materials in English.
India's first Consumer Health Education Resource Center established in 1997 by Dr. Aniruddha Malpani and his wife Dr. Anjali Malpani. HELP's goal is to empower people by providing them with the information they need to promote their health and prevent and treat family medical problems in partnership with their doctor. HELP is a free public library, and a registered charitable trust and a non-profit organisation.
The cheapest way to ship to us is by M-Bag ( costs about US $ 1 for 1 pound of books).
Institute Of Management Studies
Mr. Rajeev Gupta, President
A-8B, Institutional Area,
Sector-62, NOIDA-201301 India
Email: noida@vsnl.com
Requesting video, books and other teaching aids in English, as well as computers, in the fields of engineering, managment, finanace, media, HR Law, international relations, and information technology. IMS is able to pay the shipping cost but donors should send the list of the materials prior to shipment.
A certified non-profit organisation established in 1966, IMS is a ngo which seeks to promote the highest standards of education and research. IMS manages several Managment and Engineering colleges in Utter Pradesh of India. Materials are required to support graduate and post graduate students. for an non profit, charitable institute running only university recognised courses.
South Asian Institute of Health Promotion (SAIH)
Contact: Dr. Ms. Sanghamitra Pati, Executive Director
Plot No. 1888 &1889
Nuasahi, Nayapalli, Unit VIII, Bhubaneswar-12
Orissa, India
Phone: +91 98610 33306
Fax: +91 674 2541593
Email: drspati@yahoo.com
Requesting journals, audiovisual materials, books, research reports, guides, and toolkits relating to Health (Community Health, Population Study, Public Health), Medicine, Social Sciences, NGO Management, Psychology, Environment, and Primary & Adult Education. Languages: English, Hindi and Oriya
SAIH is a not-for-profit non-government organization (NGO) striving towards health promotion through Research,Training, Education and Intervention.
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology
RVS Nagar
Chittoor 517127
Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Email: dsreddy1999@vsnl.com
Requesting engineering books
Satyanarayana Reddy Devireddy, Principal of the College, requests donations to support their educational efforts on a limited budget.
Tarabai Eye Hospital
Dr.Sanjiv Desai
E-2, Shasttri Nagar
Jodhpur 342003 India
Email: sanjiv.desai@vsnl.com
Requesting professional level ophthalmology textbooks, journals and videos.
An eye care NGO established in 1980, providing eye care services in Western Rajasthan, India. The Hospital organizes about 35 free rural eye operation camps annually in the interior of this desert region. This modest library, located at the base hospital, is consulted by staff as well as other doctors.
Iraq
Books for Baghdad
Dr. Safaa Al-Hamdani
Biology Department
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, AL 36265
Phone: 256-782-5801(office) 256-435-9799(home)
Email: sah@jsucc.jsu.edu
A campaign to help revitalize Iraq's Baghdad University is underway at JSU. Called "Books for Baghdad," its purpose to gather textbooks for use in the academic renewal of the Iraqi capital's university. Through your involvement, you can help the people of Iraq rebuild one of their nation's premier institutions of higher education, countering the effects of decades of deprivation and intellectual repression. Courses at the University are taught in English, but faculty and students have not had access to new texts since 1990, so the need is urgent.
Seeking recent college-level books and journals in all subject areas published within the past five years. Though textbooks are preferred, we will gladly accept other books as well.
Books or checks made payable to "Books for Baghdad" may be sent to Dr. Al-Hamdani at the address above.
Help for Health Care in Iraq
Contact: David Gifford, MD (dgifford@hot.rr.com)
Address donations to:
Dr. Gifford
415th CA BN
c/o Public Health Team
FOB Danger
APO AE 09392
Books and Journals
Requesting basic textbooks in areas such as pathology, microbiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, anatomy, histology, and molecular biology; clinical textbooks in all areas of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, OB/GYN, and any other basic texts. Please send only current editions (or no more than one edition out of date, published in the last 5 years) and in reasonably good condition. Nursing and pharmacy publications are also needed.General, specialty and subspecialty journals published in the last 5 years are in great demand; in particular, those devoted to medicine, surgery, OB/GYN, pediatrics, orthopedics, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery, emergency medicine, ENT, nursing, and pharmacy.
Equipment and Software
Small items, such as stethoscopes, ophthalmoscopes, otoscopes, and blood pressure cuffs, are very welcome. In addition, teaching aids such as dissection models, teaching slides, videotapes, or computer software would be put to good use.Donors are kindly requested to pay postage, which will be reasonable to the APO address.
How to Donate
Will you help? If you have further questions about what may be needed, contact David Gifford, MD (dgifford@hot.rr.com), for more information. Donors must pay (US) postage to the APO address. (Individual packages to APO addresses must not exceed 70 lbs., and the length plus the girth of individual boxes may not exceed 108 inches. Specify the much less expensive "book rate.") Please use this address for donations:We thank you in advance for your generosity. We plan to publish future
updates to let readers know how this effort is progressing.
Kosova
The National and University Library of KosovaContacts: Tefik Mehmeti or Shukrie Rama
Sheshi “Hasan Prishtina” P.N.
Prishtinë –Kosovë 38000
Phone: 00381( 0 ) 38 248 940 or 00377( 0 ) 44 501 515
Fax: 00381 ( 0 ) 38 248 940
Email: biblio_pr@hotmail.com
Requesting materials published within the last 5 years in English, German and French, at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, as well as student or teacher manuals. Postage may be reimbursed under some circumstances.
The National and University Library is the main Library in Kosova whose mission is to collect, serve, help, provide all the citizens in Kosova and abroad with new information and new technology.
Latvia
Latvia's National Medical Library
Medical Research Library of Latvia
Contact: Donna Flake
Robert M. Fales Health Sciences Library
2131 South 17th Street
PO Box 9025
Wilmington, NC 28402-9025
Phone: 910-343-2180
Fax 910-762-7600
Email: donna.flake@coastalahec.org
Medical books published within the last 8 years, as well as medical journal issues needed. Contact Donna Flake first for lists of requested books and journals.
The Medical Library Association's Sister Library Initiative with the Medical Research Library in Riga. Funds are available to pay for mailing from Toronto, Canada or from Indianapolis, Indiana to Latvia.
Macedonia
Public Health Organization Medical Center-Veles
Contact: Ilija Srbovski b.e.
Sefki Sali 5
1400 Veles, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
Phone: 389 43 31 322 x28
Fax: 389 43 31 473
Email: isrbovski@mt.net.mk
Requesting any medical books published in the last 5 years, particularly in the areas of Pediatrics, Roentgenology (X-Rays), Surgery (general, urology, orthopedic), Anaesthesia, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Reanimation, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, infectious diseases, Neurology and Psychiatry,
Biochemistry, Physiotherapy, and Hematology. Also requesting books not more than 2 years old in the areas of Computer network design, management, and protocols; standards for UTP cables (cat.5 and cat.6), standards for fibber optics, tables of electronics components, Visual Basic, and Visual Fox Pro.The mission of this regional medical center is to provide for the public health of over 200,000 multi-ethnic people living in this area of Macedonia. The library, established in 1965, has been unable to buy books since 1991.
Malaysia
Penjara Pokok Sena
Contact: Mr.Roslan Omar
Prison Department of Malaysia
Kedah 06400
MALAYSIA
Phone: 604-7825555
Fax: 604-7821043
Email: roszu@hotmail.com
Requesting reading materials in English and Malay at all levels. We can use books, magazines, journals, and other materials such as CD-ROMs in the subject areas of economy, sport, entertaiment, business, science, medicine, drug abuse, recreation, education, health care, art & culture, exploration, management, politics, story books, education, agriculture, AIDS/HIV, information technology, and training.
As we have no budget, donors are kindly requested to pay for postage.
All donations are for male and female inmates who are desperate for reading materials.
Mexico
Hospital General Dr. Miguel Silva
Contact: Herminia Villa Barajas
apartado postal 518,
Centro, codigo postal 58000
Morelia, Michoacán. México
Phone/Fax: 4433 17 29 97
Email: hospital@unimedia.net.mx
Requesting medical books and journals (particularly donated subscriptions) published within the last 10 years.
Built in 1901, this hospital serves as state headquarters for residencies in surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, radiology, pathology, internal medicine, traumatology and orthopedics, and anesthesia among others. However, the library doesn't have own resources at the moment, since it depends on the State government of Michoacán. They urgently require materials to better prepare medical students for their clinical duties.
Information Center on Health Sciences
Contact: Abel Ayala Gaspar
Serials Librarian
Centro Regional De Información Y Documentación En Salud
Av. Francisco I. Madero Y Dr. Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño
Apdo. Postal 3-740
C.P. 64461
Mitras Centro, Monterrey, N.L. Mexico
Phone: 01 8 329 41 92
Fax. 01 8 348 78 84
Email: Aayala@Ccr.Dsi.Uanl.Mx
Ayalgas@Hotmail.Com
Requesting medical journals published during the last five years, focused on aspects of biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, internal medicine, gynecology, neurology, ophthalmology
The library struggles with their inadquate budget to supply specialized training and education in the search, retrieval and use of information in support of the faculty, students, researchers and professionals in the health sciences.
Nicaragua
People in Action
Contact: James Duff, MD
Email: Jim.Duff@CoxHealth.com
[INFORMATION OUT OF DATE: CONTACTED 9/13/05 FOR UPDATE]
Medical and nursing texts from the past 10 years and journal titles from the last 5 years are critically needed. English language materials welcome. Educational equipment including computers, overhead projectors, audio-video, etc. also appreciated.
A humanitarian not-for-profit organization dedicated to working in Latinamerica and locally for sustainable improvement in healthcare. In collaboration with the Nicaraguan government we are currently working to assist in rebuilding the healthcare capabilities of the Atlantic coast region of Nicaragu, where medical and nursing books and journals are essentially non-existent.
School library in Tola, Rivas: Nicaragua
Contact: Susan Hammer, Peace Corp Volunteer
A.P. 21
Rivas, Rivas
Nicaragua, Central America
Email: yogahead1@hotmail.com
Requesting dictionaries, atlases, textbooks, environmental, fiction and non-fiction books for children from 3 to 15 years of age in Spanish. Books in Spanish for adults are needed as well since adults will have access to the library as well. Any books in Spanish are greatly needed and appreciated.
A Peace Corps volunteer teaching environmental education, among other things, in Nicaragua, is working with children ages 3 - 15 to make school gardens and nurseries and to promote awareness about their natural surroundings and importance of how to protect it. Most schools don´t have even textbooks or dictionaries to offer students. Our project is to create a library within the school which offers books and a space to study outside of school. The Peace Corps is a organization funded by the U.S. government to help other countries at the grassroots level, and although a volunteer, Ms. Hammer is on her own working with parents, teachers and children in the community. Donors are requested to pay postage costs. Shipping materials via M bag by land will be fine.
Nigeria
International Society of Nigerian Engineering Students (ISNES)Michael Obi
53 Rounds Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14215, USA
Phone: (716) 837-4359
Email: altraide@hotmail.com
Medical Student AssociationRequesting engineering books and study materials at all levels, but books from other fields, especially in the sciences are also very welcome.
ISNES aims to get more students of Nigerian descent interested, concerned, and involved in pursuing careers in the engineering field, geared towards an informed and dynamic change in the Nigerian engineering industry and academia. Donors gratefully requested to pay for postage.
University of Calabar (MSA-UCTH)
Mr. Denis Ogar, President
Plot 25 Mekenge Layout
P.O.Box 259
G.P.O.
Calabar-Nigeria
Email: msa_ucth@yahoo.com
Requesting medical books and journals.
The sole aim of MSA-UCTH is to obtain medical textbooks and journals to compliment the depleted holdings of the main teaching hospital library.
University of Nigeria Medical School Alumni in the Americas
Contact: Ogo Egbuna, MD
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Transplant Center
110 Francis Street, Suite 7
Boston, MA
Phone: 617-632-1105
Email: oegbuna@bidmc.harvard.edu
Requesting medical literature in all fields published in the English language within the last 5 years.
Goal: To assist in providing a full complement of medical literature to the students, residents and faculty of the University of Nigeria Medical School to foster research, increase knowledge and improve patient care.Reimbursement for postage is possible depending on the nature of the literature being donated. Please contact us for details.
Pakistan
Department of Veterinary Pathology
University of Agriculture
Contact: Dr. Ahrar Khan
Faisalabad-38040, Pakistan
Phone: +92 41 9200161-170/Ext: 3119
Fax: +92 41 647846
Email: path-uaf@hotmail.com
Requesting books, CDs and other teaching materials at undergraduate and graduate levels published in the last 10 years on the subject of pathology: including veterinary pathology, veterinary clinical pathology, reproductive pathology, etc. Donors are requested to pay for postage costs.
Our department in Pakistan teaches both under- and postgraduate courses, but with a poor budget in a poor country, we are in need of the latest books to assist our students.
Jauhar Medical & Educational Trust Pakistan
Contact: Syed Mohtasham
Jauhar Nagar, By Pass Road
Khanpur. (Distt. R.Y.Khan.)
Phone: 92-707-72966,72761,7393,73942
Email: Jauhartrust@hotmail.com
Requesting books, videos, models and other educational materials, computers, multimedia projectors, slide projectors, chemistry lab apparatus, human body models and books and journals in subject areas of medicine, including anatomy, histology, orthopaedics, pathology, pharmacology, clinical medicine, dentistry, homoeopathy, natural medicine; basic , elemantary and secandary education; computer applications and software development, databases; physics , biology and chemistry; political science, literature, art, language, and womens studies; Tofel, TESL, IELTS, GRE, SAT; business, marketing, strategic planning; engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics); and dictionaries, recent encyclopedias, and atlases.
A non-governmental organization established since 1971, the Trust works toward education, health and poverty eradication in remote areas of Punjab. In the process of setting up a University, students resources are slim, with only 3000 books collected to date for a library. Areas of focus include basic education; child & women rights; community development; adult education and empowerment; education; health and population welfare; integrated rural evelopment and public health. Activites include two Homoeopathic medical Colleges, one high school for girls, one high school for boys, one primary school for girls, one free adult litracy center for women, one free vocational school for women, 44 adult literacy centers for men & women run with the co-operation of the Government of Pakistan, and more than ten (10) free dispansaries in rural & urban areas and including a women's skill enhancement center, an agriculture extension services and a resource center for the rural community provided by the organization.
Khwarzimic Science Society
Attn: Muhammad Sabieh Anwar, Joint Secretary
Centre of Excellence in Solid State Physics
Punjab University
Quaid-e-Azam Campus
Lahore 54590 Pakistan
Phone: (0) 92 42 5864185
Fax: (0) 92 42 5864534
Email: info@khwarzimic.org