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| BY THE NUMBERS | OCT | YTD |
| Countries served | 12 | 32 |
| Orders shipped | 82 | 738 |
| Charity partners | 43 | 141 |
| Product sent ($M) | 2.4 | 43.3 |
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.
Winneba, Ghana
Founded in July, 2012, Ghana Making a Difference (GMAD) aims to “shelter children who have been rescued from forced labor trafficking, abandonment, or have been rejected by society due to special needs.” GMAD, per its name, also seeks to provide the opportunity to make a difference in others’ lives, particularly in the lives of Ghanaian children. In 2012, that difference took the form of distributed food, water, clothing, and medical and school supplies. Today, GMAD’s efforts have blossomed to include building and maintaining a children’s home, rescue missions to reclaim forced child laborers and an annual medical mission. To date, GMAD has successfully integrated 100 children back into families, sent numerous children back to school and provided dental and major medical care to over 2,100 people.
On their most recent medical mission in October 2018, GMAD volunteer physicians used Globus Relief-provided resources to perform 117 surgical procedures, treat 474 eye patients and complete 520 dental exams. One lucky recipient was a young girl with a massive deformity on her right foot. Her bravery and bright smile won the medical team’s hearts. They look forward to filming her running and playing with her friends next year when they return as a celebration of her recaptured childhood.
Said GMAD Development Director, Austin Johnson, “[Globus was] great to donate multiple supplies and instruments at a fraction of the cost. All were useful as we endeavored to accommodate each person that needed surgery. Thank you for being flexible … you are a great organization to work with. A thank you letter is hardly an adequate way to show our appreciation.”
Globus Relief’s aim is to support those who, like GMAD, are making a difference in the world. Our thanks to GMAD, our charity partners and our generous donors for allowing us to be a small part of an amazing worldwide network of difference makers. We are honored.
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.
