About TALC

Professor David Morley at TALC TALC was founded in 1965 by Professor David Morley (CBE, MD, FRCP) when he was lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, in response to many requests from overseas students for teaching equipment to use in their own countries.

After starting out in a small way sending out transparencies, demand grew and the charity expanded intro distributing books and teaching-aids. Since then TALC has continued to grow and has distributed over 12 million books, slides and accessories relating to health and community issues to thousands of health workers throughout the developing world.

Use of these has enabled doctors and health workers to make the right diagnosis and provide the right treatment, resulting in the saving of many lives and the alleviation of an enormous amount of pain and suffering.

e-TALC

In 2001, the e-TALC project was begun with the idea of distributing large quantities of up-to-date, relevant medical information on CD-ROM to health workers in the developing world without access to the internet. Since then, nine issues of e-TALC have been produced, and around 60,000 CD-ROMs distributed free of charge. Contributors to e-TALC include the Lancet, the BMJ and many others.

Nursing Schools

Many nursing schools in the developing world are woefully short of textbooks, with, typically 50 students having to share only 2 or 3 outdated books. TALC has distributed 200 nursing textbooks to 3 Nurse Training Schools in Ethiopia and Sudan in the last 3 months and further consignments are scheduled to schools in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Somaliland, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Translating for the Developing World

Many textbooks and materials are available only in the English language. Translations of essential TALC publications have been made into 22+ languages including: Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Mongolian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese.

In addition, we work with authors of key texts to help to make their material comprehensible to a wider audience. Recent examples of our involvement include Spanish and French translations of Assessing Community Health Programs.

You can help us in our work by making a donation to help those many people and organisations in developing countries who need help but have no money to pay for it.

Ill-health leads to poverty and poverty breeds ill-health. TALC provides self-help materials to people to combat poverty and believes that the low-cost teaching materials it provides will continue to raise standards of healthcare throughout the world.