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Weʼre raising £1,000 to send university textbooks that we have collected to the University of Mosul in Iraq
- Glasgow, UK
- 22 days to go
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We are a group of microbiology researchers at The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Our team is comprised of people from all over the world, including Mosul in Iraq.
One of our PhD students has recently graduated and has returned home to Mosul to help rebuild the university there, which was badly damaged during its liberation from ISIS. We have collected textbooks from around our university to donate to Mosul Library.
Books are heavy, and we need your help to raise the money for postage. Any funds that we raise beyond our target will be used to purchase new books that can be shipped directly to Mosul.
We believe that education brings people together, please help in any way that you can, thank you.
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3 months agoDr. Nicholas Tucker
3 months agoHello everybody. I'm thrilled to report that we have just sent over 400 Kg of textbooks from Strathclyde to our colleagues in Mosul and that they have been delivered safely. The books travelled overland across Europe, through Turkey and crossed into Iraq to a depot in Erbil, from where they were delivered to Dr. Talal Salih in Mosul. The cost of shipping was £755, Dalia and Thaer also raised £315 in cash so we currently have a couple of hundred quid that we can put towards either a second batch or some new books. Huge thanks to you all, Nick
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- 5 months ago
Dr. Nicholas Tucker
5 months agoThanks to everybody who has donated so far, we really appreciate your support! I have spoken with the University finance team here at Strathclyde to see if they will help us manage the fund. This has a number of advantages including transparency, but mainly the fact that Strathclyde has accounts with major publishers so we can get the best prices! Thanks again - really touched by the support so far! Nick
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Richard Armour
Sep 25, 2018
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Lucie Breen
Sep 13, 2018
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Jul 20, 2018
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Jul 19, 2018
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Anne Hughes
Jul 13, 2018
Thank you so much for organising this help for colleagues in Mosul.
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Dr. Nicholas Tucker
Glasgow, UK
I am a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. I work in the the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science. https://www.strath.ac.uk/science/strathclydeinstituteofpharmacybiomedicalsciences/