uganda book project | past book projects
While teaching in Ethiopia, CNIS International Director, Dr. Ronald Lett realized that though the students knew their material, the books that they were studying were often dated and lacking in current surgical and obstetrical information.
Book shipments to Africa are organized by CNIS, who together with the Canadian Donner Foundation, fund the preparation, transport, distribution and the fees and travel costs for the personnel that take inventory and distribute the books on the African continent. CNIS’ provision of medical books to Africa will continue as part of our African Information Program.
The Uganda Book Project
Recent surgical books are always in short supply for medical students in Africa. The Sabre Foundation has given CNIS $250,000 of new surgical books. We need $25,000 to ship the books to Uganda. Help CNIS ship surgical books. A donation of $500 will ship $5000 of new surgical books to be used by medical students at 6 surgical learning centers in Uganda. Your donation will help Africa’s future medical professionals for years to come!
Past Book Projects
In 2006 CNIS’ first container of medical books, valued at $300,000, was sent to Ethiopia. A total of 4200 books were distributed amongst the 6 Medical Schools in Ethiopia, located in Addis Ababa, Jimma, Gondor, Awassa, Alemaya and Mekele.
With the support of the Donner Canadian Foundation and the Sabre foundation, CNIS coordinated a book shipment to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008. The new books are donated to us by the Sabre Foundation on condition we donate them to our African partners. The shipment contained 10 pallets (400 boxes). 125 thousand dollars worth of books were distributed to 10 libraries of the Departments of Surgery. Dr Boniface, the director of the ICC-T in Tanzania organized taking a complete inventory of the books and was in charge of their distribution. It is important to separate and distribute the books to different centers, so there is not a duplication of books at any one center.
