Refugee Camps, TURKEY
We can choose to do more.
In 2017, Globus Relief teamed up with Islamic Relief USA and other refugee-focused charities to do its portion of the “more” that is needed. Globus Relief packed 28 forty-foot containers full with 3000 medical mattresses and 240 pallets of medical products. Shipped in January, these containers arrived in Turkey on March 24, 2017 and are being utilized in local hospitals and clinics serving refugees in that refugee-laden area. These items will enable these charities to continue to supply more than 250 hospitals and clinics and perform essential medical treatments, which currently number more than 1.8 million to date.
The need is tremendous. Let us do more.
Globus Relief
Globus Relief was founded in 1996. While working in the salvage retail industry, two Salt Lake City businessmen were saddened to see viable medical and hygiene supplies frequently sent to landfills. Certain that these surplus resources could be rescued and put to good use, they created Globus Relief to efficiently channel overstocked, gently used, or short-dated supplies to humanitarian projects in Utah and around the world.
Since our founding, Globus Relief has distributed over $1 billion (fair market value) of supplies to more than 800 charities at work in over 140 countries. Twenty full-time employees oversee the work of gathering, processing, and distributing humanitarian supplies in our 100,000-s.f. warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Volunteers contribute an average of 225 labor hours per week, the equivalent of 5.6 additional full-time employees.
Globus Relief is known for strong financial efficiency, historically keeping administrative and fundraising expenses to under 3% of our total budget.
