Information posted by Mary from earlier task discussion:

As Christopher could not attach the CBO registration form he emailed it to me. It is attached here as a PDF as the site still won't let me attach a .JPG file as a file, only as an image.
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Hi Christopher

Have you tried Biblionef? I know several Nabuur-related projects that have received books from them and the application process is very straightforward.

Biblionef
http://www.biblionef.org/

Send reading books (not school textbooks) to schools, orphanages etc in developing countries all over the world. They do not charge for shipping and have already assisted several other projects on Nabuur. Note that although the application page suggests they will only assist places that don’t have any books at all, that is not the case. As far as I know they only supply books in English.

How to apply:
http://www.biblionef.org/index.php?id=78

“ARE YOU AWARE OF A PROJECT?
Are you aware of a school, a children's home or other social service institution in a developing country, where children would love to read, but do not have any children's books at all? Send your request for children's books to Biblionef.

State clearly:

• what kind of institution you have in mind: a school, an orphanage or an other project for child care, a short description;
• the age classification of the children who are going to read the books;
• how many children are going to use the books;
• proportion boy's and girls;
• the official language area of the regions and the country;
• name, address and a contact person of the institution where the books are to be send to;
• a telephone number of the contact person on the spot there and if available a fax number and e-mail address; this is necessary for the transport.”

Send email to biblionef@kb.nl

Mary

CBO Registration Certificate is available in the resource section.

This is another message pulled from the earlier project definition discussion to help keep track of where things stand currently with this task:

Thu, 2008/10/23 - 05:18

Dear Romina,Mary,Mohamed,Raul Barb and all.
Thank you very much for contributing.
Mary thank you very much for putting together the plan,project proposak doc,bills of quanties.Hope now people can view it as a together document.
Mohamed,may you help and translate the ducuments in dutch and help to disribute to kind people and organisations so that we can be advised .
Below,is the list of organisations we have sa far contacted for books:
1.Reader to reader ,inc - No responce.
2.Book aid. -we recived some few books.
3.Serena Center -No responce
4.Book Thing of Baltimore -No responce
5.International Book project -Got 21 books
6.Darrien Book Aid,inc -Got 14 books
We are still trying.
We have tried to send the copy of the CBO registration,but it cannot be fixeg.
We have no fund to do the scanning at the same time for the ministry of education copy,but we hope we can send it soon.
Yours
cHRISTOPHER

Again, pulled from the earlier project definition discussion posted by Mary:

"The list of groups that donate books and equipment that I mentioned in my last post is at
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgs9fnp6_0g5zp8p3n
(click on the links to go to the relevant sections)"

Hi all- we have manged to secure books for BIG recently for Garden's library in Zambia. They have about 100,000 books in their warehouse and Steve responds promptly to enquiries.
I didn't put the original application together- Mary Monterey did, however Mary is currently not well, so I can't give you a copy or any tips about that application process. Good luck! Carolyn

www.big-books.org
President: Books for International Goodwill

Steve Frantzich, Professor
Department of Political Science
U.S. Naval Academy

TEL. 410 293 6865

Thanks Carolyn! Do you know how Garden managed to cover shipping?

Christopher-

Can you please provide a list of textbooks and reference books needed at the school? Are there any books in particular that you would like for the library?

Regards-

Jennifer

Christopher-

One of the Local Rep's that I work with in Nepal was able to secure 3000 books for their school library simply by contacting local publishing houses in Nepal. This prompted me to look for resources within Uganda that you might contact. So far, I came up with these:

Executive Secretary
National Book Trust of Uganda (NABOTU)
Fountain House
Plot 55, Nkrumah Road,
3rd Floor, Suite 13 & 14
P O Box 25412, Kampala
Telephone: + 256 41 235264
Fax: + 256 41 251160
Email: nabotu@infocom.co.ug
http://www.nabotu.or.ug/index.php

Uganda International Book Fair (UIBF):
Uganda Publishers Association
C/O Kamala Limited
P.O. Box 4511, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 256-41-270370/342121
Fax: 256-41-342121
Email: kamalu@imul.com

International Reading Association
http://www.reading.org/association/outreach/africa.html
I believe from what I read that this organization has a division within Uganda, (The Reading Association of Uganda)

Uganda Community Libraries Association
http://www.ugcla.org/aboutus.htm
According to their website, they distribute $1000 grants each year to 6 libraries who submit strong proposals.
Email: info@ugcla.org

FEMRITE
Uganda Women Writers’ Association
Plot 147, Kiira Road
P.O. Box, 705 Kampala
Tel. +256 (41)543943
Mobile: +256 (77) 2743943
Email: info@femriteug.org
www.femriteug.org
I am not sure that this one would be able to donate books, but it really looks like a great organization that encourages women to write. According to their website some of their activities include holding workshops about writing-so possibily they might be interested in coming out to the school to talk to the girls. Very worth checking into I think.

I would very much support the idea of trying to get books and other items within Uganda. It will save on shipping costs and, especially for textbooks, will ensure that they are relevant to what is being taught at the school.

As well as those listed by Jennifer, Christopher has also said they received books from Books Abroad. http://www.booksabroad.org.uk/ in a previous post

Mary

Regarding shipping, BIG are able to cover half the costs so we raised some funds to meet them half way. i would assume their generosity extends to all groups they provide books to but you would have to check.

Dear Calo,Mary Jenffer and friends,
We have written to Biblionef a letter was posted last week.
We also to write to whatever contact that is provided to us in order to secure the books.
However,Jeniffer requested us to provide the listings og needed books.
We do teach subjects.
English Languege,Literature in English,Geograph,History,Commerce,Biology,Chemistry,Phisics,Agriculture,Christian Religiuos Education,
Fine art,Mathematics,Computer studies,economics,And vocational subjects.
Thus we require reffernce books,text books and those for use to reading in the libraly.

HI Christopher

Thanks for the information. Getting general reading and reference books from donors may be relatively easy. It may be harder to get specific textbooks - these may need to come from within Uganda, especially if all schools follow a standard curriculum, using the same books.

Will you be able to contact the Ugandan organisations that Jennifer posted details of? As they are in your country, it may be easier for you to do that yourself.

It may be worth getting in contact with publishers and local bookshops as well, to see if they are willing to assist. As well as being of benefit to you, it is also good publicity for them if they are giving books to a school in need, especially if there is a way to get their gift featured in the local media.

Mary

Dear Mary,
Thank you for your advice.l will contiune using all means
Christopher

Where i am, i know a lot of schools around here are actually THROWING AWAY books that are not necessarily outdated, but just old. There are normally around 300 of the same books. Perhaps we could get the schools to, instead of throwing them away, donate them.

Hi Nathan

Welcome to Masaka!

If you know of schools who have books they would like to donate that would be great!

Before sending any books, Christopher would need to confirm that they would be useful to Notre Dame school e.g. they cover the right subjects and are of a suitable level.

The biggest challenge will be getting the books to Uganda, so maybe if a school is interested in donating books they would also consider having a fundraiser to raise money to pay for the costs of shipping as well?

The school is also interested in forming links with schools around the world, so if you know any schools who would like to do this, please let us know.

Mary

Dear Nathan,
You are most welcome to our masaka village.
The information you provide is very nice for us.
The fact is that we realy need the books here at our school.
Not only the books,but we hope such schools may even be having used lab equipments that they no longer use.
We as teachers,they are nothing very defficult like teacing without books,for reading and for refferences by both pupils and the teachers.
As mentioned by Mary,and when you decide to contact for us those schools for books and lab equipments donation,will be a wonderful job.
For our children who sat the National Examinations this year,we had to transport children for over 100 miles away from the school for exams.We were not awarded an exam centre because we lack lab equipments and books.
lts therefore upon that background that we call upon you Mr.Nathan, and friends over there to come to our rescue and enable us get access to such books or Lab equipments.
We realy know how defficult it can be to transport such materials but when hands are joined together we can together do the work.
Very much eager to hearing from Nathan about this books &Lab equipment issue.
The subjects offered at our school are :Mathematics,economics,history,geograph,biology,physics,chemistry,religiuos education,commerce.english leterature.english languege,Fine art,capentry.machenics,tailoring,plumbing,building,agriculture,french,etc....
The books would be for reading in the library,teachers and children refferences.
EVERY BODY IS VERY HAPPY ABOUT THE INFO PROVIDED.
WE HOPE GOD'S WILLING WE SHALL HAVE THESE ITEMS