URGENT: HELP for CHRISTIAN FAITH MINISTRIES, JOS, NIGERIA

Dear friends,

Greetings from Jos!

End of September a container will be sent to us by Kitanda Charity, Belgium (Rudy Devinck & friends) in coordination with Trinity Church Brentwood. This shipment will contain materials for helping our children and communities who are recovering from Boko Haram insurgency. There is plenty of room in the container so we would like to fill it up as much as possible to make the most of this opportunity. If you are able to help us with good quality items, such as those listed below, we would be deeply grateful! Any financial contribution towards the shipping cost would also be appreciated.

We are also looking for materials for a boys scouts style adventure park (rope climbing frames, challenge courses, flying fox, etc.) and for someone who has experience in building such a park.

If you can help, please URGENTLY contact Luc De Coster (07977 549438 – ) as the goods need to leave from Brentwoodby 29 September! (Anyelectrical items need to be in Brentwood sooner as they need to be tested and certified to be in good working order.)

Blessings and love,

Kent & Ruth Hodge

Educational materials forschool & children’s home

Computers & laptops for the computer library

Any equipment for an art lab, science labs, and a music lab

Phonics books, charts, materials

Children’s books (English or French) of all kinds (good fiction or non-fiction, science books, library books, text books, “how to” books, etc.)

Children’s stickers

Posters for walls, decorative and educational (for school rooms and children’s bedrooms)

Pencils, including fat pencils for small children

Mathematical instruments

Table pencil sharpeners

Crayons

Art materials of all types, paper, paint, craft materials

Drawing boards & technical drawing kits

Flash cards (numbers, letters, two & three letter words)

Dictionaries, thesauruses’, atlases

Musical instruments, particularly electric keyboards and guitars, wind instruments

Music instruction books, simple sheet music, guitar cord charts

Music stands

Music manuscript paper/workbooks

Any school equipment such as science equipment, laboratory glass-wear (not chemicals),sciencemodels, maths models etc.

Educational CDs or DVDs (region 0 or 2) or CDs, including nature programs, history programs, travel programs, etc.

TV and DVD player (UK region 2)

Children’s toys, all types, all ages

Small ride-on toys for the nursery class, tricycles, push toys, ride-in-toy car, etc

Puzzles, all ages, all types

Puzzle mats, play mats (such as mats with roads on)

Window blinds

Office filing cabinets & classroom cabinets

Plastic storage boxes

Water filters

Small classroom heater (for nursery class in Jos, during harmattan cold season)

Children’s home:

Footwear (in good condition)

Clothes, especially sweaters (in good condition)

Table mats (plastic mats for children’s place settings for meals -we have hundreds of children!)

Bath towels

Blankets, bed sheets

Children’s scooters and bicycles

Sporting equipment -all types, including lawn hockey sticks, footballs, tennis balls, bats etc, skipping ropes, volley ball nets, table tennis balls and bats

Board games, including checkers and chess, scrabble, puzzles, quiz games

Yarn (wool) - all colours, crochet hooks, knitting needles, patterns

Knitting machine

Farming

Small walking tractor/rotary hoe, for cultivating between orchard rows

Gardening tools of all kinds, wheelbarrows, lawnmower (ride on would be great, any cordless will do!), hedge trimmers, grass and weed strimmers (heavy duty, cordless)

Vegetable seeds: BEEF TOMATO seeds for greenhouse, strawberry, passion fruit, melon seeds, cabbage, carrots, beans, onions, Chinese cabbage

Flower seeds: marigold, zinnia, impatiens, jasmine, honeysuckle

Tools

Any tools that may be useful for vocational training centre, including all carpentry tools, metal work tools, plaster-of-Paris moulds, tile cutters, sewing machines, scissors etc

Bible School

1. Office stationaries.

2. Certificate papers.

3. White board and accessories.

4. Printers for A2 and A3

5. Small gym equipment.

6. Data Projector (Daylight).

7. ID Card Machine.

8. Football, volleyball, table tennis board and accessories.

9. Paper cutter.

10. Double column ledger books.

11. Laminating machine.

12. Passport printer.

13. Spiral binding machines.

14. Network switch (Cisco brand 24 ports).

15. Wireless printer.

16. Wireless access point (network buster).

17. Computer maintenance tool box.

18. Computer networking tool box.

19. Table rack.

20. Office cabinet.

21. Photo camera.

22. Disc Publisher.

23. Scanners.

For printing our own materials (thousands of evangelism books, school text books, etc.)

1.Press: Cord machine

201 machine

Generator

Punching machine

Rimming machine

Industrial stappler

Big stappler

Small stappler

Hot glueing machine

Cutting machine

Plate maker

2. Computer section: Apple desktop

Printer

Scanner

Laminating machine

What’s needed is a full sized print press in the traditional sense (the ‘old fashioned’ print press). This is still the common type of printing in Nigeria. It is cheaper and more durable in the long run. It allows for larger runs and jobs.

Medical wish list for the new medical centre
Please: NO expired, rusty or non-functional equipment.

-Investigation

  • Echography machine (with possibility for vaginal echo)
  • Lab equipment:
  • 2 microscopes with slides, cover glasses
  • Hb machine
  • Centrifuge
  • Basic urine analysis
  • Giemsa staining
  • WBC count machine/count box
  • pH paper
  • baby scale + adult scale
  • stethoscopes + otoscopes + thermometers + blood pressure cuffs + lights
  • For HIV center: PartecCyflow counter. Crea- Cobas c111. Mindray BC5300 (5parts).

-Delivery

  • Delivery table
  • New born resuscitation table with equipment for basic resuscitation
  • Doppler machine
  • Forceps + ventouse
  • Clamps for umbilical cord + scissors
  • Emergency kit when bleeding
  • scissors + stitching material for episotomy
  • baby hats and cloths to keep baby warm

-Treatment equipment

  • Pill cutters
  • Safety boxes for needles
  • NG tubes (few) for babies and adults
  • Urine catheters with bags for women and men
  • IV lines + needles
  • Gloves (different sizes, most non-sterile)
  • Masks
  • Needles + syringes (+ ear syringes for ear cleaning)
  • Sterile aprons
  • Wound care material: trays, gauze, non-sticky gauze pads, steristrips, razers, good sticky tape, good sticky bandades, elastic bandages
  • Plaster sets
  • Resuscitation bag with open airway material (guedel) and oxygen balloon (baby and adult)

-Side equipment

  • 2 fridges with thermometers if new
  • Screens
  • IV-stands (6)
  • Trolleys for transport of medical equipment
  • Stretcher (1)
  • Wheelchair (1)
  • crutches
  • Autoclave or steam sterilizer with necessary racks/timer/drums/towels
  • Examination table (4)
  • Observation beds (but no electrical) (6)