Our mission is simple: to provide basic educational materials to medical students in developing countries. Even with the advent of the Internet, many medical schools in Africa and across the globe do not have the same access to electronic educational resources. While the U.S. and Europe develop technologies for tablets and smartphones, several university medical libraries in African countries don't even have enough basic textbooks for their doctors-in=training. It's our goal to bridge this education gap for future leaders in the medical profession. 

Since 2005, we have shipped over 2,000 textbooks to Cameroon, Ghana, Zambia, as well as Vietnam and Iraq. We want to keep increasing these numbers and the schools we touch so medical students can learn how to provide quality health care to the people in their communities. 

Medical Libraries in Africa: What We Do

In 2005, siblings Beatrice Igne-Bianchi and Jonathan Igne-Bianchi designed an operational model to collect and send medical textbooks to the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon after learning that students shared a very limited number of textbooks among an entire medical school class. This lack of educational resources hindered hardworking students from reaching their full potential as future medical professionals. We partnered with the Massachusetts Medical Society's Committee on Global Health and the MMS Alliance's Boston District, and expanded our project to reach other African nations and developing countries. 

 About Us

Our Start

Medical Libraries in Africa

Created: 2005

Founders: Beatrice Igne-Bianchi and Jonathan Igne-Bianchi

We work to improve: 
Medical education, global health, community health, access to care