Community Development Community Health Center
Dental Care; Free ClinicsDisability Services
Educational Programs Homeless Support Services Medical MissionsPedicatirc Care
Refugee Care
| BY THE NUMBERS | JAN | YTD |
| Countries served | 5 | 5 |
| Orders shipped | 41 | 41 |
| Charity partners | 30 | 14130 |
| Product sent ($M) | 0.1 | 0.1 |
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.
Kitovu, Makasa, Uganda
In 1955, Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka, the first African Roman Catholic Bishop in sub-Saharan Africa, invited the Sisters of the Medical Missionaries of Mary from Ireland to found a “first aid post” in the village of Kitovu, Uganda. They did so and soon were providing out-patient services, and later in-patient services, to people from Masaka and several neighboring districts. It grew in mission and size over the years, eventually becoming a hospital with nearly 250 beds. In 2001, these sisters turned administration of the hospital over to the local congregation, The Daughters of Mary Sisters, who have continued the tradition of caring, service-oriented sisterhood ever since.
Today, the Kitovu Health Care Complex encompasses a hospital, HIV/AIDS treatment center, regional blood bank, neonatal care unit, nutritional rehabilitation unit and school for laboratory assistants, among other programs. It is especially known for its obstetric fistula treatment facility, one of only about six in all of Uganda. The facility is specially designed to repair obstetric fistulas, a childbirth injury caused by obstructed labor that leaves the mother permanently incontinent. Because of the odor and unsanitary conditions of their incontinence, women with obstetric fistulas are often abandoned by their husbands and shunned by society. Kitovu’s specialized care gives these women back their life and their dignity.
Globus Relief is proud to supply instruments to support this important work, sister to sister and stranger to stranger. We believe that as we care for each other throughout the world, we all grow in dignity.
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.
