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March 2008
If the shelves and cabinets, back rooms, and offices at your veterinary clinic are crammed with unused textbooks, journals, instruments, equipment, and supplies, consider donating them to veterinarians and students in foreign countries where they are needed.
The AVMA often receives calls from people interested in donating such items. The groups and individuals listed here collect for the countries specified. These donations may be tax-deductible if given to a qualified nonprofit organization, using IRS form 8283, "Noncash Charitable Contributions." Or consult a tax expert.
A contact for Veterinary Books for Africa is Tertia Coetsee, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort, 0110, South Africa; phone, 27-012-5298580; Tertia.coetsee@up.ac.za
Medical Books for China International accepts veterinary and other medical textbooks and journals, but they must have been published or produced between 1998 to the present. Working through the Chinese Ministry of Health, the organization serves over a thousand libraries in China. Contact Mary Zoe Phillips, 13021 E. Florence Ave., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670-4505; phone, (562) 946-8774; fax, (562) 946-8778; jmpmbci@yahoo.com.
Bridge to Asia collects large animal textbooks, sets of journals that span at least 10 consecutive years (ending no earlier than 2004), monographs, and conference proceedings for veterinary students, veterinarians, and faculty and students at agricultural schools in China. Visit www.bridge.org for details. Contact Bridge to Asia at (415) 678-2990; asianet@bridge.org.
Dr. Srinivasan Ramanathan and other Indian veterinarians practicing in America have established a veterinary college at Jaipur, in northern India near New Delhi, and travel there to help. They welcome donations of items they can bring for the students to study large and small animal medicine, especially teaching materials in large animal medicine and farm, zoo, and exotic animal husbandry and management areas. That includes textbooks (but not journals), clinical data, proceedings, husbandry materials, and data stored on computer disks. Contact Dr. Ramanathan before sending anything, at (425) 246-2444, or animaldr@hotmail.com. His address is 31014 124th Ave. S.E., Auburn, WA 98092.
Dr. Kenneth Haas coordinates donations of textbooks, journals, and surgical instruments for International Veterinary Educational Assistance, for Latvia. Contact him at 2722 Carlyle Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49008; phone, (269) 344-3249.
The Education and Research Committee of Usmanu Danfodiyo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria requests donations and subscriptions of books, journals, publications, illustration posters and models, CD-ROMs, and other interactive learning materials. The committee's educational program would also welcome computers and laboratory/diagnostic materials. Items should be sent to the program's coordinator, Dr. Aminu Shittu, c/o Department of Public Health and Animal Production, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B 2254, Sokoto-Nigeria; phone, (234) 803-6857-519; ameen_vet@yahoo.com.
Dr. I.H. Kathio accepts donations of textbooks and journals as well as items such as surgical instruments and suture materials to take to Pakistan. He has also traveled to other countries, including Mexico and Israel, at their request to do volunteer work. Contact Dr. Kathio at Pittston Animal Hospital, 4 O'Connell St., Pittston, PA 18640; phone, (570) 655-2412; www.kathio.com.
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