Donations
If you are volunteering with Shanti Uganda in Uganda, the following is a list of our current needs to either bring with you or purchase in Uganda. If you have any questions, please contact sadie@shantiuganda.org
If you are not planning on going to Uganda, but would like to donate supplies, please contact natalie@shantiuganda.org
Educational Materials
- Prenatal and Birth Education materials (charts, books, visuals etc)
- Easy to read resources on herbs and pregnancy, organic gardening etc.
- Chalk board/Easel for classes & workshops
- Educational materials that may be relevant to any of our programs
- Training birth dolls
- Robin Lim's book - 'Placenta - the forgotten chakra'
- Movie - Guerrilla Midwife
All Programs
- Loose fitting Yoga/sweat pants
- Yoga Books
- Bolsters all sizes
- yoga blocks
- blankets
- Pens, Pencils, note books.
- Containers to keep supplies in.
- Panties for teen girls program (12-19 yrs old)
- Bloomers for post-partum mothers
- Photo frames (all sizes)
- Yoga magazines, posters,
- Gently used second hand baby clothes, receiving blankets, hats, socks,
Administrative
- Binders
- Note books
- Paper
- Staplers
- Paper clips
- Files and file folders
- General office Supplies
- Filing cabinet
- Staples
- Book tape, packing tape
- Photo paper
- Bulletin board/white board
- A4 Computer paper
- 110 Series for HP photo packs for HP photosmart A646
- Canon Pixma MP250 Printer Ink Cartridges- Black PG 210 and Colour CL 211
- External hard drive
- USB sticks
- Small Laptop with new battery (acer, mac air book, etc.)
Teen Girls
- Reusable menstrual pads
- Sewing material; needles, thread, used cotton fleece fabrics or flannel are best
- Art supplies for teen girls program
Volunteer House
- Cabinet to store donations
- Dish towels
- Sponges
- cork board
- Pots/pans
- Dishes/Cups/Mugs
- Shelving
- Large refrigerator
- Cupboards bathroom/kitchen
- Mosquito nets
- Bed sheets
- Seating
- Light bulbs
- Laundry bins
- Candles/lanterns/solar charged lights
- Clothing Iron
- Pillows
- Toaster
- Mouse traps
- Extension cord
- Universal power convertor
- Hangers
- Large plastic storage bins
Birth House Supplies
- Sheets and pillow cases
- Pillows for extra support
- Scrubs (small sizes only)
- Condoms (including female condoms)
- Candles
- Batteries all sizes for the torch, clocks and head lamp
- Surgical sterile gloves (size7-8,)
- Urine test strips
- Catheters small
- Catheters (5-14, 5-16)
- Cotton wool
- IV giving sets
- Disposable syringes (2mls and 5 mls)
- Ferrous sulphate
- Folic acid tablets
- Magnesium trisilicate tablets
- Oral re-hydration salts ( ORS)
- Oral Nystatin and Pessaries
- Tetracycline eye ointment
- Paracetamol 500mg tabs
- Disposable gloves
- Hypodermic needles (19Gx1”)
- Needles (G-18, G-21)
- Canulae (G-18, G-) (blue, pink, green, yellow)
- Alcohol swabs
- Medical cotton swabs
- Thermometers
- Cord clamps
- Capes and masks (disposable)
- Disposable gowns
- Surgical goggles
- Plastic Aprons
- Gloucometer test strips
- Uristix (10 Parameters)
- Multi-vitamins
- Acetamophen
- Amoxyl caps
- Vitamin C
- Doxycyline caps
- Mebendazole
- Benzathine penicillin
- Fansidor
- Quinine tabs
- Paper bags/ medicine envelopes
- Savlon
- Gauze different sizes
- Butterfly needles
- Macintosh
- Water for injection
- Strapping (tape for circulation)
- Strapping adhesive
- Dextrose 5% and 50%
- Normal saline
- Ringers Lactate
- Flagyl
- Misoprostol
- Oxytocin
- Artmether
- Chlorine tablets
- Darrows
- Chromic cut gut 2/0,1/0,0
- Calculator
- Plain needles (big and small)
- Pregnodoxine
Equipment
- Filing cabinet
- Fetal scope
- Cuscos Speculum
- Trays
- Mosquito Forceps
- Surgical Blades
- Long scissors
- Long artery forceps
- Brushes for scrubbing instruments
- Boiler for sterilizing equipment (medium size)
- Head Lamps
- Blood pressure machine (x2)
- MVA kits (x2)
- Drip stand
- Trolley
- Baby Table
- Tongue depressor
For Laboratory:
- Colorimeter-Digital with a weave length between 540-550
- Centrifuge
- Weighing scale (balance)
- Colorimeter (haemoglobin estimation)
- Beakers
- Cylinders
- Cuvettes
- Volumetric flasks
- Hcg
- HIV tests- Uni-gold, State Park, Determine, Strips
- Slides for microscopes
- Malaria Strips- any type
- Hepatitis strips
- Lab Table
- EDTA tubes
- Funnels
- Measuring fug
- Counting chamber for WBC count
- APC for laboratory (computer)
- Tally counter
- Filter papers
- Calculator
Garden
- Garden tools
- Garden gloves
- Natural pesticides
- Gumboots
- Garden Hose
- Baseball cap
- Resource books on homeopathy, herbalism, natural medicine etc…


