Nile Valley University Coordinates distribution of British Book Aid International Charity books to university and public libraries in Sudan

Within its series of projects to digitize and archive manuscripts and documents that document the different historical eras of Sudan, which have so far exceeded 116 thousand manuscript pages in addition to 40 thousand archival images through the Sudan Memory Project, the Deanship of Libraries and the Nile Valley Center for Documentation and Ethnographic Studies at Nile Valley University organized a meeting via Zoom platform coordinated and invited by “Mallinson Architects” represented by Micheal Mallinson and Helen Mallinson the project directors of “Safeguarding Sudan Living Heritage (SSLH)” and Engineer Anas Medani, Technical Director of SSLH and Data Manager at “Sudan Memory” project.

The meeting was attended by
Dr. Wahid Ali Muhammad, Dean of Libraries at the University,
Wahbi Abdel Fattah Abdel Rahman, Director of the Nile Valley Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Studies,
El-Tayeb Abdullah El-Sheikh Al-Hassan, Secretary-General of the Sudanese Association for Libraries and Information,
Muhammad Yassin Shawqi, Librarian of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum,
Hamza Al-Sanousi Al-Amir – Librarian of the College of Qetina Technical of Sudan Technical University,
Al-Shafi Ibrahim Nawawi, the Digital Repository Secretary at Nile Valley University.

The meeting discussed a collaboration to bring and distribute books from “Book Aid International charity”, a charity registered in the United Kingdom interested in providing FREE books to libraries in Africa and around the world as a community service.
This collaboration will support and provide books for academic institutions, public libraries, school libraries and children’s libraries in safe areas in Sudan, with Nile Valley University being the focal point for managing and supervising the project implementation in Sudan.
Mr. Michael Mallison, who is interested in Sudanese antiquities and heritage, participated in the meeting, where some community topics were discussed, represented in studying climate change and its impact on mud houses in River Nile State, which were affected by the rains and floods that recently hit the state, such as Abu Hamad, Al-Abidiya, Marawi and some areas in Dongola in the Northern State, and how to provide technical support to prepare the necessary studies in the fields of environment and engineering to address the problems of houses collapse.
Mr. Michael Mallison called for the need to benefit from the expertise and cadres of Nile Valley University, represented by the Center for Environmental Studies and Research and Rural Development and the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in this regard.