The Power of One Medshare 2014 Annual Report
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THETHE POWERPOWER OFOF ONEONE MEDSHARE 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 15 years of bridging the gap between surplus and need THE MEDSHARE MODEL: HOW WE WORK TOGETHER Our PARTNERSHIPS with hospitals and manufacturers provide us with the medical products our recipients need. Our VOLUNTEERS sort the donated product and pack it into boxes. Along with BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT, these boxes are SHIPPED overseas to public HOSPITALS and CLINICS in need. We also equip MEDICAL MISSION TEAMS with the medical supplies they need to carry for their mission trips. And through all this medical surplus redistribution, we’re helping the ENVIRONMENT and keeping life-saving products out of landfills. OUR MISSION OUR CommUNITY MedShare is dedicated to bridging the gap MedShare relies solely on the gen erosity between surplus and need to improve health of individuals, foundations, corporations, care and the environment in the United and government grants to carry out its States and abroad. mission. OUR PURpoSE OUR CommITMENT MedShare acts as a recycling and dis MedShare is committed to helping all health tribution center for surplus medical supplies care institutions that serve vulnerable popu and equipment. MedShare collects and lations regardless of religion, politics, or redistributes these unexpired products to race. MedShare often partners with various health care facilities in medically under faith based and nongovernmental organiza served communities. tions to fulfill its mission. 2 Dear Friends, THE POWER OF ONE is not simply a theme for this report. It is a call to action: a belief that our individual talents and time are valuable and needed, to trust that one small act of kindness when joined with others creates a ripple effect that can build healthy communities locally and globally. The Power of One symbolizes how one person’s desire and commitment to affect change and connect with others, can create an organization that makes a difference for many in communities around the world. That is at the heart of our mission at MedShare. Thomas Asher (left), and Charles Redding (right) In fiscal year 2014, edShareM shipped 1,738,027 pounds of medical supplies and equipment valued at $18.8 million USD in 128 fortyfoot containers to public hospitals and clinics in 26 countries, and equipped 372 medical mission “One person’s desire to teams. As you read this report, you will see how the work of each one of our partners, donors, and volunteers in the affect change can United States is helping doctors and nurses at public create an organization hospitals across the globe get the supplies and equipment they need to provide quality health care to their patients. that makes a positive difference for many.” We also reached a number of milestones: our 1,000th container shipment of customordered supplies and equip ment since our founding 15 years ago, and our expansion to a third U.S. region with the opening of our Northeast Sort and Collection Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. The power to serve and make a difference lies in each of us. We greatly appreciate your support of our work and we invite you to join us as we continue bridging the gap between surplus and need. Charles Redding Thomas Asher CEO and President Chair, Board of Trustees 3 THE POWER OF ONE 18,662 VOLUNTEERS SERVED 1.7 MILLION POUNDS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT SHIPPED TO 26 COUNTRIES 128 CONTAINERS SHIPPED $18.8 MILLION SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT DELIVERED 372 MEDICAL MISSION TEAMS EQUIPPED 33 FREE AND SAFETY NET CLINICS PROVISIONED 136 TECHNICIANS/ENGINEERS, 314 DOCTORS/NURSES, 342 STUDENTS TRAINED SPONSOR TYPES REGIONS WE SERVED 4 THE IMPACT OF MANY WHERE WE SERVED Shipments: Guatemala 4 Nigeria 10 Bolivia 2 Guinea 1 Philippines 15 Total: Cameroon 7 Haiti 10 Sierra Leone 4 128 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1 Honduras 4 Somalia 5 Côte D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 2 Kenya 7 Tanzania, United Republic of 1 Dominican Republic 5 Liberia 1 Turkey 3 El Salvador 1 Malawi 4 Uganda 2 Gambia 1 Marshall Islands 1 United States* 19 Ghana 11 Nicaragua 5 Vietnam 2 * Shipments to other U.S. based NGOs who ship internationally MEDICAL MISSION TEAMS Armenia 1 Guinea 2 Pakistan 1 Bangladesh 1 Haiti 35 Palestinian Territory 1 Total: Belize 3 Honduras 22 Panama 5 372 Bhutan 2 India 5 Peru 13 Bolivia 2 Iraq 2 Philippines 44 Cambodia 8 Israel 1 Romania 1 Cameroon 1 Jamaica 2 Russian Federation 1 Congo 1 Kenya 17 Senegal 2 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 4 Liberia 7 Sierra Leone 3 Cuba 5 Malawi 7 Solomon Islands 1 Dominican Republic 8 Marshall Islands 1 South Africa 1 Ecuador 4 Mexico 7 Sudan 1 El Salvador 5 Micronesia 2 Tajikistan 1 Ethiopia 12 Mozambique 1 Tanzania 13 Fiji 2 Myanmar 1 Togo 1 Gambia 1 Nepal 6 Uganda 11 Ghana 15 Nicaragua 29 Uzbekistan 1 Grenada 1 Niger 2 Vietnam 1 Guatemala 24 Nigeria 17 Zimbabwe 5 FREE AND SAFETY NET CLINICS United States 33 5 THE POWER OF ONE 2014 Event Highlights Atlanta Young Professionals promote MedShare MedShare’s Southeast Council and Board of Trustees member, Ariana Zibilich and her colleagues at Triage Consulting played a huge role in helping MedShare celebrate 15 years of diverting sur plus medical supplies from local landfills and sending these unex pired supplies to communities in need of quality health care. On October 4, 2013, our Sustainable Social introduced young pro fessionals in Atlanta to MedShare and offered ways they could engage their corporate employers to fulfill their social responsibil ity by supporting MedShare’s work. Ghana First Lady is special guest at Northeast Region’s NYC Gala The First Lady of Ghana, Lordina Mahatma, visited MedShare’s National Office and Southeast Distribution Center inOctober 2013 to tour and discuss a partnership to ship 40foot containers of medical supplies and equipment to Ghana, especially the Northern Region. Special thanks to MedShare Northeast Council member Japhet Aryiku for inviting Mrs. Mahatma to attend the Third Annual Share the Good Gala in November 2013 as the event’s honored guest. Mrs. Mahatma has sponsored four 40foot containers valued at $100,000 USD to several health care facilities in Ghana. MedShare opens Northeast Region office in Secaucus, NJ Following the appointment of James White as the new Northeast Region Director, MedShare held a ribbon cutting celebration for the opening of our Northeast Collection and Sorting Center on March 12, 2014 in Secaucus, NJ. Staff members were joined by members of our Northeast Regional Council as well as represen tatives from our partners and funders: North Shore–LIJ Health System, Henry Schein, Crutches for Kids, and the Gerard Health Foundation. 6 THE IMPACT OF MANY 2014 Event Highlights Western Region honors volunteers at annual recognition event On May 3, 2014, MedShare’s Western Region held its 6th Annual Volunteer Appreciation Party at the Sorting and Distribution Center in San Leandro, California. More than 80 volunteers, their family and friends gathered for a celebration in the warehouse transformed with glittering, overflowing treasure chests of choco late gold coins, beads, and gemstones. Special guest Dr. Bwire Chirangi gave a presentation on Shirati Hospital in Tanzania. A 40 foot ocean container of medical supplies and equipment spon sored by our Western Region volunteers was shipped to the hospi tal from the Port of Oakland in November 2013. MedShare ships 100th and 1000th 40-foot containers to Africa MedShare board members and special guests joined staff members at our Southeast Distribution Center in Atlanta, GA on May 14, 2014, to celebrate MedShare’s 1,000th ocean container shipment to Donka Hospital in Guinea and the shipment of one hundred 40foot containers to Nigeria. Organized by MedShare Vice President of International and Corporate Relations Nell Diallo, Medshare founders A.B. Short and Bob Freeman, former board chair Thomas Asher, and CEO and President Charles Redding were among the speakers for the program. NY Young Professionals raise $70,000 for Typhoon Survivors Nearly 200 guests gathered at the Hotel Americano in New York City on June 12, 2014 for MedShare’s New York Young Pro fes sionals Third Annual Benefit and Silent Auction. Event CoChair Jennifer Tytel (pictured near left) says the group met its most aggressive goal to date. A part of the event proceeds will help sponsor a MedShare 40foot ocean container of lifesaving medical supplies and equipment to Ormoc City Hospital in the Philippines to help health professionals treat patients recovering from the devastating impact of Typhoon Haiyan. 7 THE POWER OF ONE One product keeping millions healthy PRODUCT DONORS A.R. Medicom grant from the Kimberly-Clark Corporation helped launch MedShare in ABC Home Medical A 1998. During the past 15 years, the company has funded the shipment of AK Medical All Medical Care 99 forty- foot containers of medical supplies worth $11.6 million to 74 health American Red Cross facilities in 13 countries. AMMA Atlanta Community Food Bank Kimberly-Clark products are used by nearly a quarter of a million people in the Becton Dickinson Boron Medical Inc. world every day. During fiscal year 2014, MedShare shipped17.6 million exam BSN Medical gloves donated by Kimberly-Clark to 30 countries, diverting nearly 210,000 Bullington Associates, Inc. C. R. Bard lbs. of medical waste from U.S. landfills. CareFusion Carters, Inc. Centurion Medical Products Corp. One Kimberly-Clark product that has been on every MedShare ship- CitiHope International, Inc. ment over the past fifteen years are medical examination gloves. Covenant Dove Covidien Crutches 4 Kids The gloves help protect health care workers from potentially infectious flu ids, CURE International blocking the transmission of chemicals, microbes and diseases like HIV.