Countries Served in 2015 BBF VP Liam Carstens in Liberia and
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Countries Served in 2015 BBF VP Liam Carstens in Liberia and
BBF VP Liam Carstens in Liberia and Sierra Leone In November 2015, BBF Vice President of Medical Programs and Strategic Initiatives Liam Carstens traveled to Sierra Leone and Liberia to visit with BBF partners in these west African nations, Mr. Carstens toured hospitals, clinics and orphanages that received support and donations from BBF. In Sierra Leone, BBF works with Dr. Karen Asher and her organization, West African Education and Medical Mission, as well as with the Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL) and Caritas Sierra Leone. BBF and Healey International Relief Foundation recently sent manual hospital beds and mattresses, which were well received. BBF and CHASL worked together during the Ebola outbreak. BBF sent protective gloves and cleaning materials in addition to other medical supplies and equipment to facilities treating patients with Ebola. In Liberia, Mr. Carstens revisited several institutions that receive direct donations from BBF including Phebe Hospital, Redemption Hospital, Ganta Hospital, and several clinics and health centers. Mr. Carstens met with Dr. Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health for the Republic of Liberia, who asked BBF to continue to send manual hospital beds like the ones that had recently arrived from Pittsburgh. In addition, Mr. Carstens visited an orphanage, a school for respiratory therapists and several clinics that have received solar panels and electrical systems. BBF is expanding its support of these types of projects in Liberia. Liam Carstens, BBF Vice President of Medical Programs and Strategic Initiatives, meets with Dr. Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health for the Republic of Liberia. Mr. Carstens and Dr. Dahn met to discuss recent donations from BBF to the Ministry of Health and future possibilities. Inside President’s Report 2 Thank You Donors 3-4 Mission Trip Reports 5 Global Problems Global Solutions 6 BBF Officers Board Chair Charles J. Stout* Vice Chair Phillip D. Jones* Treasurer Joseph T. Senko* Secretary Austin P. Henry, Esq.* Medical Director Deborah K. McMahon, M.D. President Luke L. Hingson *also a trustee Other BBF Trustees Ebola screening tent at Phebe Hospital, Liberia. Phebe Hospital is a longstanding partner of BBF that was devastated by the Ebola outbreak. Linda Kharkei and Maima Blamo stand near a birthing table that BBF recently donated to Ganta Hospital in Liberia. BBF purchased this table brand new and sent it to Ganta Hospital with other requested pieces of medical supplies and equipment as part of BBF’s African Medical Initiative. A proud father holds one of the smallest patients at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Nursing staff of United Methodist Church, Kissy General Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, stand near a birthing table that Brother’s Brother Foundation recently purchased and donated to the hospital. Africa Fundamental Baptist Mission, Gbarnga, Liberia. This health center received a solar power system that allowed it to provide services to expecting mothers 24 hours a day. In 2015 BBF funded an expansion of this solar power system. Countries Served in 2015 In 2015, BBF shipped requested supplies to 63 countries including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, St. Vincent’s Island, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, United States of America, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Barry Byer, M.D. Daniel R. Delaney, Esq. Roy G. Dorrance, III Garry L. Garrison Amy R. Hammer Joseph E. Imbrigia, M.D. Graham F. Johnstone, M.D. Cynthia Kilgore Macrina C. Lelei Chronis H. Manolis Richard L. McGough, III, M.D. Gordon B. Moore Les H. Pitton, Jr. John D. Reba David M. Swan, M.D. Lilla O. Swan William M. Swartz, M.D. Louann Tronsberg-Deihle John Tymitz John C. Unkovic, Esq. Robert S. Verscharen BBF Staff Luke Hingson Qaadir Anderson Thaddeus Adkins Debbie Baucom Erin Belitskus Sarah Boal Liam Carstens William Davis Karen Dempsey Donna Engelhardt Ryan Gindlesperger Richard Goddard Antonella Ferraro David Holdsworth Ryan Kondrot Velimir Letoja Kevin Meszaros Robert Miller Frank Seanez William Shaffer Valorie Sherman Dinita Thomas Phone: 412-321-3160 Fax: 412-321-3325 [email protected] website: www.brothersbrother.org Issue 107 Connecting People’s Resources with People’s Needs • www.brothersbrother.org January 2016 BBF-NCA 2015 Report President’s Report by Luke Hingson In 2015, product contributions totaled $232,441,234 and product shipments totaled $251,633,002. Direct shipments and mission trip support went to people in need in 63 countries. Incoming medical donations for the year were valued at $213,667,116, which includes 3,432,999 bottles and tubes of medicine. Medical containers sent to countries in need during the year totaled 159. BBF’s Education Program sent 40 shipping containers holding more than 596 tons in 2015. The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of BBF took place on January 19th with the following individuals elected as officers: Board Chair, Charles Stout; Vice Chair, Phil Jones; Secretary, Austin Henry; Treasurer, Joe Senko; Medical Director, Deborah McMahon; and President, Luke Hingson. The following Advisory Board members were elected to the Voting Board: Austin Henry, Phillip Jones, Chronis Manolis, Joseph Senko, David Swan and William Swartz. Also, the following new Trustees were elected to the Voting Board: Joseph Imbriglia, M.D., Lilla Swan and John Unkovic. Finally, Jordan Feucht joined BBF’s BBF Officers Secretary Austin Henry, Vice Chair Phillip Advisory Board as a Jones and BBF Board Chair Charles Stout new member. BBF and the Rotary Club of Apia Bring Textbooks to Samoa BBF, working with the Rotary Club of Apia and the U.S. Embassy of Samoa, sent a shipping container filled with 416 cases of textbooks and other educational supplies. This shipment has been received and the U.S. Ambassador to Samoa Mark Gilbert took part in the distribution. Some of the recipient schools have not had new textbooks in 50 years! Hand Carry Donations Brothers Brother Foundation National Capital Area (BBF-NCA) provided supplies for 282 medical mission trips in 2015. This compares with three trips in 2013 and 103 in 2014. Thirty were sent in December 2015. Materials sent to BBFNCA hand carry partners served over 164,000 people in 44 countries. Haiti (51), Honduras (48), Ukraine (24), Guatemala (24) and Dominican Republic (22) were the countries with the greatest number of mission trips in 2015. BBF-NCA supported over 190 different mission trip partners with the top three being Global Medical Brigades (36), U.S. Ukraine Foundation (21) and International Medical Relief (10). Container Shipments In 2015, BBF-NCA sent 31 medical shipments by container or partial container to 10 different countries. Haiti (4), Sierra Leone (4), Ukraine () and Jamaica (2) were the top recipients. Food for the Poor, Adventist Relief and Development and the US Ukraine Foundation were the top partners with BBF in these shipments. In December, BBF-NCA shipped a 40-foot container to Laurel Memorial Hospital in Batangas, Philippines, in partnership with the Philippines American Medical Society. 2015 included sending BBF’s Pittsburgh warehouse 200 pallets and pallet equivalents of medical supplies and equipment from BBF-NCA for distribution worldwide. Twenty-six of these arrived in December 2015. Medical Materials Collection Individual donations to BBFNCA in 2015 total 452 with 40 arriving in December. Total weight of BBF-NCA staff member Dinita Thomas and one the many groups of volunteers at BBF-NCA donations in 2015 was approximately 351,000 pounds, including estimates for January through April and actual weight from June through December. This compares to estimated weights of 78,000 in 2013 and 223,000 in 2014. In December 2015, 61,728 pounds were received, with Owens and Minor Hanover the top donor of 16,062 pounds. Joerns, Geisinger Health, Owens and Minor Hanover, UMMC and Synergy Health were the top five 2015 donors to BBF-NCA by weight. New donors include Carilion, the Franciscan Mission, Geisinger Health, Gleaning for the World, Joerns, Medstar Southern Maryland, Prince William Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital. 2016 Goals and Objectives for BBF-NCA 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Increase gift-in-kind donations from 452 in 2015 to 500 in 2016. Receive 400,000 pounds of donations in 2016 compared to 351,562 in 2015. Support 350 hand carry missions versus 282 in 2015. Ship 35 containers of medical supplies and equipment from BBF-NCA Continue to expand the BBF-NCA donor base by identifying new donors and expanding the number of hospitals and health systems. BBF’s Work with Global Brigades Since 2009, BBF and Global Brigades, through BBF’s medical mission trip program, partnered to bring needed medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to individuals and communities worldwide. Global Brigades provides an opportunity for university students to use their skills and to volunteer abroad to help those most in need. In 2015, BBF provided pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to 25 university medical brigades serving individuals and communities in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. University trips included brigades from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Maryland, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Davis and at Riverside. Over $102,000 of necessary medical supplies and pharmaceuticals from BBF supported the amazing efforts of these Global Brigades. The University of California at Davis chapter of the Global Medical Brigades at work in Honduras BBF’s Mission Trip Program in 2015 In 2015, BBF supplied more than 350 mission trips to 49 countries. Issue 107 Connecting People’s Resources with People’s Needs • www.brothersbrother.org January 2016 Carolina Honduras Health Foundation Medical Mission Trip to Honduras We just returned from another great trip to our medical clinic in Limon, Honduras and once again, I cannot thank BBF for all the wonderful free medications and supplies that you provided my team with for this trip. We saw patients from the villages of Limon, Icoteas, Francia, Plan de Flores and Chapagua. For some first time team members it is a shock to their systems that there is no internet in these remote areas, but then they see a mother, with a little packet of rice and beans that she brought from home, feeding her children so they would not be hungry while they wait patiently for hours to see a doctor. And this same mother will thank someone who gives her all the medications needed to treat her sick children at no cost to her. Little does she know that some wonderful people with BBF in PA donated some of those drugs that will make her children better. A big, “Mucho Gracias!” from our patients in Honduras. Chris Zawacki Team Leader/Board Member Carolina Honduras Health Foundation (During this trip, Carolina Honduras Health Foundation (CHHF) treated 500+ with the help of basic medical supplies and 450+ bottles of medicine donated by BBF. This was the 42nd CHHF mission trip that BBF has supported since 2008 and the 59th Honduras-bound medical mission trip in 2015.) In 2015, BBF supported a medical mission trip Project Helping Hands to Cambodia with 469 bottles of medication. The team offered vision and basic medical care as well as public health education at clinics in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and several nearby rural villages. This was one of four medical missions to Cambodia that BBF supported in 2015. In 2015, BBF Supported Circle of Hope International’s medical mission trip to Malawi with 439 bottles of pharmaceuticals. With this support, the team served 756 people at the Grace Center clinic in Katengeza Village while offering public health education as well as training for local health professionals. This was one of five BBF-supported medical mission efforts in Malawi in 2015. Pennsville Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant, PA Medical Mission Trip to Panama A group of 20 members from Pennsville Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant, PA, traveled to four villages outside of Panama City, Panama. We were struck by the difference in economic class of the people we encountered. Panama City is a modern city like many in America. McDonalds & KFC were readily available. We traveled 1-2 hours outside of the city to villages of indigenous tribes and they didn’t have electricity. A dugout canoe was our mode of transportation down the Chagres River to reach a group from the Embera Tribe. In addition to medical care, we were able to provide toothbrushes, toothpaste, and vitamins to everyone we saw and had personal hygiene kits to distribute at another village where the people of the Woanam Tribe lived. This village also required a boat ride through a marsh to get to the people. In four days of clinic, we were able to see 431 patients and fill 1023 prescriptions. Many of the children were seen at a school called Nuevo Paraiso. The children walked two hours one-way to get to the school and the teachers lived at the school through the week, only going home on weekends because of the distance they live from the school. We were also asked to make several house calls for patients who couldn’t come to us. The homes had little to no furniture and we often found just blankets on the floors. We treated patients with hypertension, diabetes, skin conditions, as well as infections that required antibiotics or anthelmintics. Trips like these humble us in what we have available to us compared to what is available in the rest of the world. Thank you for helping make this trip possible. Without your donations, we would not have been able to take all of the medications and supplies that we needed. Thank you, Amy Kriss (In support of this medical mission trip, BBF supplied 150 lbs. of supplies and 157 bottles of medicine. This is one of six Panama- bound medical mission teams BBF supported in 2015.) Brother’s Brother Foundation 1200 Galveston Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15233-1604 Non-Profit Organization US Postage Paid Pittsburgh, PA Permit No. 797 ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTED FN 107 Cover With Address Label Issue 107 Connecting People’s Resources with People’s Needs • www.brothersbrother.org January 2016 BBF Board Members Work in Niger and Zimbabwe BBF Trustee Dr. Graham Johnstone, working with Medical Teams International, volunteered at Galmi Hospital in Niger. The team arrived offering their considerable medical expertise as well as 190 bottles of BBF-donated medicines and several boxes of sutures that will assist with operations at the facility. BBF Trustee Dr. Graham Johnstone in Niger BBF, working with BBF Advisory Trustee Drew Harvey and The Nyadire Connection of the United Methodist Church, loaded a shipping container with pallets of medical supplies, rolls of vinyl, medical equipment, 27 manual hospital beds and two medical utility vehicles that were distributed to several medical facilities connected to the Nyadire Hospital in Zimbabwe. BBF and The Nyadire Connection have worked together since 2009, sending five shipments in 2015 with the latest serving Nyahuku Clinic. BBF Advisory Trustee Drew Harvey in Zimbabwe A Pathway to Environmental Stability April 21 and April 22, 2016 LaRoche College http://www.laroche.edu/global/ International Recognition Consistently rated with 100% fundraising efficiency and charitable commitment for nearly a decade. BBF is a member of Interaction. Brother’s Brother Foundation Thanks: H.J. 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