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Refugee Care
| BY THE NUMBERS | FEB | YTD |
| Countries served | 5 | 26 |
| Orders shipped | 83 | 592 |
| Charity partners | 34 | 127 |
| Product sent ($M) | 5.3 | 36.1 |
OUR MISSION To improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
Various Areas, Turkey
3.5 million. More than the population of the entire country of Uruguay. That’s the number of Syrian refugees hosted today in Turkey, the single biggest refugee country in the world. It’s been eight years since civil war broke out in Syria. As a result of that war, half of Syria’s citizens have fled their homes. Of those, 3.5 million have ended up in Turkey. There they have married and borne children. They have set up shops, found odd jobs to get by and worked without legal permits. They depend on promises made by Turkey, the EU and world to give them aid, education and healthcare. And Turkey, heroically, has responded, as its economy and populace have groaned with the effort.
As a group, and because of the size and severity of the crisis, Syrian refugees in Turkey are one of the largest recipients of aid from Globus Relief in recent years. Working through Islamic Relief USA and ANSA-GIAD, a local Turkish NGO, Globus has sent hundreds of pallets of medical supplies to Turkey to alay the strain of the ongoing refugee crisis. Alongside the Turkish government, ANSA-GIAD has distributed these resources to a variety of recipients and programs throughout the country, including:
- Urban refugee centers: focusing on the urban centers where the majority of Turkey’s refugees live, this program distributes medicines, food and wellness items to needy families
- Local hospitals and primary care facilities: ANSA-GIAD supplies medical resources to Turkish medical facilities in refugee-heavy areas to help alleviate the pressures and cost burden of providing free healthcare to refugees
- Syrian refugee camps in Turkey – this program addresses medical product shortages within refugee camps near the Syrian border
All told, ANSA-GIAD estimates that in the past year these programs have benefitted 14 hospitals and medical centers, 7 refugee camp clinics and over 400,000 individuals, including 18,000 urban refugee families. Granted, it’s not quite 3.5 million – but with the help of Islamic Relief USA, ANSA-GIAD and the Turkish government, we are starting to get closer.
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.
