Books With Wings is a collaborative project between Canadian students and their counterparts in Afghanistan.  Books With Wings began as the Kabul Medical Library Project, initiated by Dr. Richard Gordon and medical students at the University of Manitoba , involving medical students and staff at 13 universities across Canada .  The effort resulted in the collection and shipment of over 1700 medical textbooks with an estimated value of over $250,000.  The tremendous success of the project garnered national media coverage, and has since expanded to include a core medical book library for Al-Beeruny  University  led by Shira Taylor at the University of Toronto, who coined the name “Books with Wings”. Medical students at Memorial University of Newfoundland and University of Western Ontario have recently joined in the effort as well.

Books With Wings is entirely non-profit and is made possible by generous donations and the tireless work of our volunteers.  If you wish to contribute, please visit the donation link above.

For information regarding our goals for 2006/2007, please click here.

April 30, 2007: Next Shipment of Books is Ready!

June will be a very exciting month for Books With Wings! Thanks to many generous donations, we are ready to ship and distribute 3800 books in Afghanistan. In order to make this happen, we ask that you now donate funds to help with the transport and distribution costs. Our goal is to raise $5000 in the next few weeks. Thank you for your continued support and stay posted for further updates!

April 24, 2006: Herat Medical Library Status (BWW University of Toronto)
Medical Students at the University of Toronto have collected over 800 medical textbooks and have raised funds for bookshelving!

March, 2006: Books With Wings Penpal Program

Books-with-Wings-Penpals is an outgrowth of the Books with Wings project to bring new medical and health books to the academic libraries of Afghanistan. Its purpose is to initiate one to one contacts between nursing, midwifery, dentistry and medical students in Canada and Afghanistan. Private conversations are encouraged.

To subscribe to the BWW Penpal listserv program, please visit http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/books-with-wings-penpals