With the generous support of pharmaceutical and medical
device manufacturers, Project HOPE has shipped donated medical products
worth more than $1 billion to 100 countries around the world. In
addition to pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and equipment, Project
HOPE has distributed medical textbooks, computers, and communications
systems, as well as office supplies and equipment needed for the
effective practice of medicine in a developing country.
While Project HOPE is not usually among the first
organizations to bring medical products into an area affected by a
natural or man-made disaster, our strategy is to provide long-term
access to medicines and supplies, even after the attention of the
outside world has waned. Additionally, Gift-In-Kind (GIK) provides
crucial support to our ongoing educational programs, providing supplies
for health professionals to practice techniques they have learnedwith
Project HOPE.
A ll Project HOPE contributions are based on the
country's needs and requirements; no indiscriminate deliveries are
made. Before delivery of any GIK, Project HOPE follows rigorous
protocols which assure the gift is needed and the recipients know how to
use the products.
Project HOPE’s computerized inventory tracks every item
as an exclusive product until it reaches its final destination. To
reduce the risk of product diversion, Project HOPE headquarters also
provides logistics training and technical assistance to in-country
program staff, better preparing them to monitor appropriate product
delivery.
These strict standards and procedures are why governments
around the world trust Project HOPE in their time of need, including the
U.S. government. Within a month of the tsunami, the
U.S. Navy and HOPE joined forces in a first of its kind
public/private partnership in which the Navy supplied a hospital ship,
the USNS Mercy, and HOPE mobilized an army of approximately 200
volunteer health professionals to bring health and hope to thousands of
tsunami survivors in Indonesia.
This humanitarian aid mission was such a success, the
Navy once again called upon Project HOPE, this time for its volunteers
to care for U.S. citizens along the Gulf Region left destitute in the
wake of Hurricane Katrina.
More than 3,000 professionals applied for volunteer
service with Project HOPE during these two crises, complementing HOPE’s
vast GIK network with a human resource component.
Cary Kimble Director of Development
Project HOPE
ckimble@projecthope.org
Tel. 540-837-9513
www.projecthope.org