Hello!
The staff here at Medical Bridges have been hard at work trying to do as much as possible to save precious medical supplies and equipment from local landfills and instead send them to people who desperately need them. Although it's barely the end of June, we've already sent 47 hand carried shipments and 17 forty-foot containers. The total replacement value of the 17 containers alone is over one million dollars!
But wait, there's more...
We have many more shipments in the works and hope that 2010 should be one of the most productive years in Medical Bridges' history. This year has been exciting in the office because we have made more multiple container deals than ever. Last year, we made our historic first multiple container deal to ship several containers to different countries on behalf of AEI. Now, less than six months later, we have officially signed another multiple container contract to be one of the main suppliers of a hospital in Nigeria on behalf of Dr. Ulu.
And let me tell you about our friend Dr. Ulu. He's an amazing man that has made it his own personal mission to build a small clinic in Nigeria. But, not only did he build an amazing hospital in a medically under served area, he also has dedicated several weeks of his year to personally go over there and work in the hospital. He already has a 10 container deal that will help keep his clinic supplied this year, and is preparing to sign another 10 container deal that will ensure supplies all the way till mid-2012.
Of course, Dr. Ulu is not our only friend that does great things. We also have projects coming along under the direction of our savvy business development manager Steve who has told me that he is in talks with a medical student who wants supplies to take with her while she works abroad for a semester. She is a student at Baylor College of Medicine and hopes to work in Ecuador at a hospice as well as two separate clinics. I'll keep you posted and let you know if this works out. Fingers crossed!
Also, Steve finally said goodbye to a shipment headed to Senegal. This shipment hit many bumps in the road before it was able to leave our warehouse. Fortunately, the shipment is finally destined for a children's hospital in a rural village that is on the same compound as a home for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. This compound also has a school attached. The hospital is used by the children who live on the compound as well as other children from the surrounding area. Steve hopes that he can arrange a multiple container deal with doctors at the hospital in order to keep the hospital viable to the community.
Maybe you remember from the news a couple of weeks back when Tropical Storm Agatha reeked havoc on Central America. Sink holes ate up entire communities and more than 145 people are reported dead. One of the hardest hit countries was Guatemala, with more than 120 people dead and another 40 missing. Agape in Action, a group that Medical Bridges regularly supplies for its missions across Central and South America, had just finished a mission in Guatemala but after hearing about the devastation, headed straight back to Guatemala to do what they could. Medical Bridges was happy to provide them with emergency medical supplies to aid in the mission. (
Read more about the devastation left by Tropical Storm Agatha here).
I'll have more information coming to you soon.
Take care,
Roze
