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Book Project
We are focusing on collecting books
and journals from the publishing industry and other
organizations and libraries like yours. The whole
segment has been devised to help make a difference
because of too many students with few information
for research in their area of studies. We have been
receiving various information from Ghana and read
many stories about how our universities need help
with books and equipment. We want to equip our university
libraries with as much books and journals we can
lay our hands on. We are not looking for books in
specific areas but we do stress that they have to
be educational importance or textbooks that might
help the students.
Our goal for this project is to eradicate
the hardship many students are encountering in search
for information for their research in their area
of expertise for the next 2-5 years. It is really
true that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. We
are currently looking for donors of books to help
all our universities and then we can also use this
as a model to help the primary and secondary schools.
With this project in place, this would serve as
a role model for many organizations to emulate this
GCG wonderful effort.
Shipping textbooks to Ghanaian universities.
The first four shipments, addressed to Prof. JKM
Quartey of Legon for distribution to the University
of Ghana Medical School, the UST School of Medical
Sciences and the University of Cape Coast, left
New York and Richmond, Virginia between August and
December 2002. The process of shipping books to
Ghana include:
(1) A donor (Ghanaian or friend of
Ghana) contacts Charles Mensah
(2) Charles Mensah stores consignment
at a temporary location in Philadelphia and ships
the books in boxes of 10 to Emmanuel Ofori in Richmond,
Virginia
(3) Emanuel Ofori ships books in containers
filled with other supplies (medical, computer/hardware,
etc) to Tema
(4) Contact person in Ghana informs
the universities to use their tax exempt status
to pick up delivery of containers, for distribution
to the appropriate faculty e.g. Ghana Law School
or UST School of Medical Sciences.
Charles N. Ntiamoah-Mensah,
Director, Univeristy Book Project
Nana Dwemoh Benneh,
Director of Secondary School Project.
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