Donate Supplies

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…