Through a generous partnership with Worldwide Logistics Group, VIP is collecting donated supplies to fill a sea container to be shipped to Malawi. These will equip a new secondary school, health center, and agricultural demonstration farm!
You can help by donating any of the supplies below.
NOTE: All donations must be approved by VIP staff. We have limited space and only send what is truly needed. Contact us with the details of what you’d like to give.
Want to give cash to cover the cost of some of these supplies? Donate funds here.
For questions about Educational & School Supplies, contact Megan Smith. These supplies will go to students at One Heart Secondary School and other schools in Malawi, Africa.
- Notebooks
- Pencils
- Pens
- Backpacks
- Backpacks for laptops
- Chalk
- Rulers
- Compasses (math)
- Protractors
- Calculators (solar)
- Colored Pencils
- Pencil sharpeners
- Notebook paper
- Graph paper
- Educational posters (Any subjects)
- Sight word cards
- Solar Lanterns
For questions about Medical & Dental Supplies, contact Lucy Goeke. These supplies will help supply and equip the Khanda Health Center in Malawi, Africa.
Furniture and Equipment
- Crank hospital beds with mattresses (10 needed)
- Examining tables with leg stirrups (2 needed)
- Solar lights
- Baby bassinet (hospital style)
- Exam lamps
- Pharmacy Storage Unit
- Wheelchairs (manual only)
- Four-fold screens (4 needed)
- Centrifuge
- Autoclaves (2 needed)
- Infant scale – non-battery, metric (kg); (3 needed)
- Child scale – non-battery, metric (kg); (3 needed)
- Adult scale – non-battery, metric (kg); (3 needed)
- Microscopes (3 needed) Eye charts
Medical Supplies
- Sharps containers (50 needed)
- Wound care supplies (gauze, kerlix gauze, tape, tegaderm, etc.)
- Surgical instruments
- Forceps
- Medical scissors
- Bed linens
- Neonatal stethoscopes
- Cardiac stethoscopes
- Plastic aprons
- Gloves (all sizes)
- Mosquito nets (50 needed)
- Speculums
- Obstetrical forceps
- Kidney dishes
- Cord clamps
- Manual vacuum aspiration sets
- Ambu bags with masks (adult)
- Ambu bags with masks (infant)
- Suction apparatus (foot operated)
- Chlorhexidine
- Suturing sets
- Suture removal sets
- I&D sets
- Glassware set for lab (slides, glass tubes)
- Pulse Oximeter (finger)
- Accucheck portable machine
- Hemoglobin portable testing machine
Dental Equipment
- Dental Chairs with Accessories (2 needed) with or without monitor and intra-oral camera
- Dental stools (4 needed)
- Amalgamator (1 needed)
- Digital X-ray machine with monitor
- Autoclave machine
- Ultrasonic scaling machine (2 needed)
- Oil-free compressor
- High speed handpiece (4 needed)
- Slow speed handpiece (4 needed)
- Manual radiograph processing unit
- Suction machine
Dental Instruments
- Extraction forceps set (5 needed)
- Elevators (5 straight needed)
- Elevators (5 cryers needed)
- Filling sets (3 needed)
- Scaling sets (3 needed)
- Major/minor surgical instruments (2 sets needed)
- Examination sets (mirror, probe, tweezers, periodontal probe)(20 needed)
- Dental syringes (20 needed)
- Endodontics sets (reamers +files)
- Light Cure machines for composite restorations (2 needed)
For questions about Agricultural & Beekeeping Supplies, contact Tim Schuler. These supplies will help supply and equip a new Training Farm in Malawi, Africa.
- 3 rolls of white on black plastic mulch (4’x4000’)
- 2 rolls of drip irrigation tape w/ 12’ hole spacing
- ¾” submain tubing and fittings for hookup to drip irrigation tape
- Filter, pressure regulator, pressure gauge, manifold fittings for ¾” supply
- 4 gallon Backpack sprayers
3-gallon air compressor- Push type seeder for small seeded crops
- Push type cultivator for small seeded crops
- Solar-powered electric fence for animal pastures
- Supplies for a small refrigeration room
- Seeds
To coordinate packing and drop-off, contact one of our volunteers or staff below:
- Education & School Supplies: Megan Smith
- Medical Equipment & Supplies: Lucy Goeke
- Agricultural Supplies (including beekeeping and farm): Tim Schuler
- General questions: Sarah Moore or call (609) 772-4753
