Books for International Development

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Books for International Development
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Project Goal

• Provide books and computers to developing country
  Universities.

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The Books13-15k pounds/per shipment Less than
15 years old ?

• Sources
• Univ. libraries
• World bank
• Private donations
• All University-level disciplines
• Journals typically 10 years
• Excluded are Popular culture books and religious
  material

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Logistics

• Donated books received
• Sorted by discipline
• Title, author, publisher recorded (scanner)
• Stamped with IOCD logo
• Boxed in IOCD boxes
• Pallets (10 per shipment, 210 boxes)

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The Computers24 per shipment

• Pentium class
• accessories
• Hardware sources
• PA state,
• Cisco systems
• Software
• Licensing issues
• Microsoft donations pending

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Recipient Countries

• Chosen in consultation with UNESCO or IFSE
• Shipped
• -Georgia, -Pakistan,
• -Comoros, -The Gambia,
• -Swaziland, -Dem Rep the Congo,
• -Mauritius, -Bangladesh
• -Liberia, -Ghana (2 univ.).
• Next 3 shipments Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda

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Funding

• UNESCO
• International Found. Sci. Educ.
• International Monetary Fund
• IOCD
• (Americans for UNESCO)
• State of Pennsylvania
• Private donations
• Donations in kind from
• World Bank
• American Association for the Advancement of
  Science
• Millersville Univ.

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The Future

• Two shipments prepared
• Two more (sorted by end of summer)
• Next round of funds are being negotiated with
  UNESCO and IFSE
• Book Donations
• Warehousing a home at last

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Medical Equipment Donation(MED)

• Concept send 20 containers with medical
  supplies and equipment.
• Donors
• 2 regional hospitals
• Regional medical school
• Surgeons
• Glaxo Smith Kline