Purpose of this Section: To identify sources of materials, equipment and supplies, etc. Only ongoing sources are listed, single project oriented or location specific efforts may be found in the Projects Section.

Subject Advisor: Vacant

Organizations are Listed Alphabetically below:

AERDO, AERDO is Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations. This is a forum for non-profit Christian agencies and individuals engaged in relief and development work. There are 45 members shown and it appears many provide volunteer effort as well as medical supplies, equipment, etc.

American Medical Resources Foundation, Contact: David Harrington, Phone 1-508-580-3301. - AMRF refurbishes medical equipment and ships to hospitals in developing nations. The Foundation also provides training for those responsible for the maintenance, repair and calibration of the donated equipment.

Aquabox, Great Britain, Contact: Frank Lund - This project provides rapid response to man made or natural disasters with safe drinking water and welfare aid items

Blessings International - W33, Contact: Harold C. Harder - Blessings International was founded in 1981 to serve as a source of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for treating indigent patients through Christian clinics and hospitals located in developing nations and by short-term medical teams serving needy patients in such countries. Blessings International has ongoing relief and development projects in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Myanmar, North Korea, Mozambique and India. Over 1000 other ministries have used our services since our inception.

Book Aid International - Contact: Nicola Cadbury - Book Aid International (formerly Ranfurly Library Service) works in partnership with people in developing countries to support literacy, education, training and publishing. The organization provides books and other reading materials to help give people the chance to realize their potential and contribute to the development of their societies.

Books for Africa - - Contact: Dr. Robert J. Kowalczyk - The organizations mission is to combat the shortage of reading materials in Africa by collecting and sending books to schools and libraries throughout the continent. The organization provides funding for shipment, as well a assistance with sorting and packing the materials.

Books for Kids International - Contact: Hugh Wallis - The objectives of this project are: 1. To foster literacy and a love of reading among children through the development of an international book sourcing and distribution system that improves the underprivileged child's access to books through ownership and enhanced library and school resources. 2. To develop relationships with international Rotary Clubs, leveraging the Rotary network to build grassroots literacy programs in book donation destinations while maintaining accountability to our donor organizations. 3. To encourage humanitarian service and participation in the Rotary Club of Stouffville among members in our community by promoting this project's potential to make a difference in the lives of children worldwide.

Breedlove Dehydrated Foods - W7, Contact: Robert Taylor: - Breedlove Dehydrated Food Plant in Lubbock, TX is a wonderful example of a project that was started with the help of many Rotarians in West Texas. It receives donated fresh produce and vegetables by the boxcar load, dehydrates it, and them mixes it in custom blends of soup mix. One pound of dehydrated soup yields 25 or more servings at a cost of less than 3 1/2 cents per serving. This soup mix has a shelf life of over two years and is ideal for disaster relief, food for the starving in Africa, and emergency Red Cross relief efforts. This plant has the capacity to produce 500,000 pounds of dehydrated food per week, or over 10 million servings. It is ideal for Rotary projects domestically as well as WCS matching grant hunger projects worldwide.

Bridge to Asia - Contact: Jeff Smith - Bridge to Asia supports educational modernization in developing nations. It provides educational and research materials to schools and universities throughout Asia. Material is delivered in electronic form via the Internet, as well as by more traditional means.

Brother's Brother Foundation -W29 , Contact: Luke Hingson - In its 42 year existence, Brother's Brother Foundation has shipped over 63,000 tons of supplies overseas to those in need. Five hundred 40-foot containers of books, medical supplies, food and seed have been shipped for Rotary distribution in over 30 countries.

Canadian Council for International Co-operation , This sounds like the Canadian equivalent to InterAction. This coalition is composed of over 100 Canadian non-profit organizations.

CARE International - CARE International is confederation of 10 agencies that deliver relief assistance to people in need and long-term solutions to global poverty.

Carelift International, Contact: Jeffrey Gloss - Carelift harvests surplus medical supplies, equipment and pharmaceuticals from U. S. medical institutions and corporations and distributes these to needy hospitals overseas. In addition, Carelift has created a Medical Education program to support hospital development.

Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI) - Contact: info@cbmi-usa.org) - CBMI is the oldest Christian mission in the world working with the blind and the disabled. The organization provides medical, educational, and rehabilitation services to needy people in 108 developing countries. CBMI's programs focus on preventing major eye diseases and providing literacy and vocational skills training to the blind and disabled.

Christian Flights International (CFI) - W44 - Contact: Scott Mandl- Christian Flights International was officially started in 1984, as a mission to the people of Ranquitte, Haiti. CFI is based on a five-acre compound which contains a pre-school serving over 80 students, a primary/secondary school serving over 800 students, a clinic, woodworking shop, bakery and two wells. CFI sponsors a reforestation program, over a dozen wells outside the compound and a micro-loan program to help Hatians start businesses to become self supporting and profitable. Medical supplies and construction items are collected and shipped to Haiti. CFI is supported by individuals, churches, businesses and organizations, including Rotary. Except for the stateside coordinator, all US volunteers pay their own way on trips.

Compassionate Resource Warehouse - Contact: Dell Marie Wergeland - This organization, located in Victoria, BC, Canada collects surplus materials and ships to developing countries.

Concern Worldwide - Concern Worldwide is committed to providing emergency aid and long-term development programs to communities in need around the world.

Council on Foundations, This Web Site provides access to hundreds of Foundations that are involved with Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Aid.

Crossroads International - Contact: Malcolm Begbie Crossroads International is a registered non-profit corporation which takes Hong Kong's quality superseded goods and redistributes them to people in need, locally and internationally. So Crossroads seeks, indeed, to be a crossroads; a place where need and resource intersect. See also Global Hand.

Diamond Diagnostics, Inc. - Contact: Denise J. Boucher, National Sales Manager () This for-profit organization can provide re-manufactured instrumentation for clinical laboratories and they also partner with a company within that market that can help maintain the equipment in the field as well as provide the reagents and spare parts need.

Direct Relief International - W24, Contact Susan Fowler- Direct Relief International (DRI), founded in 1945, supports the immediate and on-going work of community health initiatives and disaster relief teams through donations of appropriate and specifically requested medical commodities. These goods are contributed to DRI from over 150 manufacturers and distributors as well as clinics, hospitals, and physicians and dentists. Donated equipment is tested and refurbished and documentation assembled before shipment. DRI then partners with other organizations and foundations, including Rotary Clubs and Districts to finance the processing and shipping expenses associated with delivering this tangible support to locations in need around the globe. DRI also has extensive contact with Rotarians around the world who help screen the legitimacy of requests and help assure that the goods are delivered to the proper clinics, hospitals, or relief efforts. See also Rotary District 5240's Hands Across the Sea Program, item W25 of this section.

DreamWeaver Medical Foundation Contact: Susie Adams, Executive Director ) - DreamWeaver Medical Foundation's main focus is to help improve people's lives through sharing of medical resources. We are dedicated to turning medical surplus into useful products and funding for charitable healthcare programs worldwide. After many years working in the healthcare and medical products industries, our founders realize the efficiencies that make for-profit businesses successful can also be enjoyed by not-for-profit agencies. We are networking with manufacturers and distributors to create a continuous stream of medical supplies and equipment available to mission agencies at the click of a mouse. Thanks to today's technologies and the Internet, we can share resources worldwide efficiently and cost-effectively.

Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) - Contact: Dr. Martin Price - ECHO works toward long-term solutions to world hunger by helping low-income families grow their own food. The Christian organization is active in developing new agricultural methods through research at an experimental farm. These ideas are then shared with workers in developing countries.

Emergency Boxes, Great Britain, Contact: Barbara Roberts - This project provides a shipment of basic items for use in emergencies in any part of the world.

Equipment for Charity Hospitals Overseas (ECHO), Great Britain, Contact: Dr. John Townsend, Phone 44-181-660-2220 - ECHO offers a comprehensive medical supply service for the relief of illness abroad. The non-profit organization makes its medical supplies, equipment, pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs and equipment available at low cost, (sometimes partially subsidized) to mission, charity, and government hospitals and rural health care clinics in developing countries, as well as to disaster relief programs.

FAMSCO (Fire and Medical Supply Company) - W11, Contact: Gordon Esbeck - FAMSCO is an Iowa Corp. formed in 1990 to procure and ship emergency vehicles loaded with medical/surgical supplies, fire-fighting equipment and children's clothing to underdeveloped countries, mostly in Central America. The project began in the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club, and is now a significant District 6000 WCS Project. Our focus is on Ambulances and fire trucks, and related equipment, but also included school buses in the past. From 1990 through 1999, we have shipped 69 vehicles, loaded with over 150 tons of medical equipment and 2000 bags of children's clothing to Central America. We are a 501-c-3 entity. We currently rent hanger space at our local airport for storage. We collaborate with Rotary clubs in Central America, mostly through Rotarian Juan Forster (member of RI HANDS committee) in Guatemala. FAMSCO has been active in the annual Uniendos Americas Project Fair in Central America founded by Juan Forster.

Feed the Children - Contact: Tim Baker - Feed the Children is an international, nonprofit Christian organization which provides food, clothing, medical equipment, and other necessities to people who lack these essentials because of poverty, famine, drought, flood, war or other calamities. It has distributed food and other urgently needed assistance to 72 countries.

Free Computers for Education, Great Britain, Contact: Grahame Leon-Smith - This project has 1800 Rotary Clubs helping to collect surplus computers and re-distributing them to schools. For RIBI this is considered a Vocational Service Project.

Food for the Hungry, Inc. - W27, Contact: Stanley G. Schirm - Meeting physical and spiritual needs worldwide, Food for the Hungry (FHI) is an organization of Christian motivation, committed to working with the poorest of the poor to overcome hunger and poverty through integrated self-development and relief. True and complete development is only possible by reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ. FHI works in the poorest countries of Africa, Asia Latin America, and Eastern Europe to feed and help hungry people. Its work is organized into four areas: disaster relief, child sponsorship, education through long-term sustainable development and deployment of volunteers. Operations: FHI's 1,166 workers link 48,235 donors who provide food, clothing, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, micro-enterprise opportunities, and training to poor people in 26 countries.

Free Wheelchair Mission Contact: E. Russell Smith - The Free Wheelchair Mission has developed a very inexpensive wheelchair and provides them to the handicapped poor in developing countries.

GladNet Association - Contact:Val Lawton, Operations Manager - GladNet began as an initiative of the Disability and Work Programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO ), a specialized agency of the United Nations. The GLADNET Association was established in 1997. It is affiliated with the ILO Disability and Work Programme.

GLADNET is registered in Switzerland as an international not-for-profit international organization and its administrative offices are in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The objective of the Association is to promote disability policy and programme reform with emphasis on integrated training and employment options for working age disabled persons. These objectives are achieved through collaborative applied research projects, and by the global exchange of information via the Internet.

Global Hand (www.globalhand.org) - Contact: Malcolm Begbie - Global Hand is an initiative of Crossroads International and it is attempting to build a network of organizations that offer superseded goods to people in need. See also Crossroads International.

Global Links,Contact: Kathleen Hower - Global Links recycles surplus medical equipment, supplies, and hospital furnishings by donating appropriate items to health care institutions serving the poor in developing countries, primarily in Latin America. To better serve recipient needs, Global Links seeks long term relationships through their ongoing programs in recipient countries. One of the innovative programs enlists US hospitals to collect surplus packs of sutures for donation to member institutions in more than 20 countries.

Global Medical Network, Inc., Contact: Frank Tuft - This organization offers an auction on all types of medical equipment.

Global Operations and Development (GO&D) - W43- Contact: Bill Barta - Global Operations started in 1993 to help the hospitals and orphanages of Russia. After acquiring a 25K sq ft warehouse and a 24' truck, we began to help domestically as well, with homeless and shelters. We currently ship $ 20 million of goods of various types around the world. We have projects in Bosnia, Russia, Tajikistan, manned by GO&D staff. We generally provide our goods to partners who sponsor/fund the shipments. Besides relief goods, we provide medical consultation, medical teams, and transportation advise. Also because of a strong history with the US State Dept., we are able to get free ocean freight from USAID, mostly for CIS countries. We want to assist Rotary Clubs and Districts with our goods and services to help the needy worldwide.

Hands Across the Sea, Rotary Club of Santa Barbara Sunrise - W25, Contact: E. Russell Smith - The Hands Across the Sea Program, founded by the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North, D5240 in 1966, partners with Direct Relief International (DRI) of Santa Barbara, CA to help improve health services and foster self-sufficiency for health projects in the less developed areas of the world. In the past 10 years alone, Rotary has helped to ship over $8 Million (US) at wholesale value in over 100 shipments to 25 countries. This is an ongoing program and District 5240 also assists DRI with locating equipment, locating technicians to check our donated equipment, and locating Rotarians in other countries to help with the receipt and distribution of the equipment, materials, and pharmaceutical products. See also Direct Relief International, item W24 in this section.

HART (Humanitarian Aid Resources and Transportation, Inc.) - W17, Contact: Jessica Settle - Founded by Rotarians Jack Maxwell and Larry Biron, and established by a Special Initiatives Grant from the RI Foundation, HART is dedicated to assisting and strengthening humanitarian efforts through the identification and development of cost-effective (yet safe and secure) transportation sources. HART's energies are devoted to networking with Rotarians and other organizations involved in humanitarian efforts to share experiences and resources. Focusing on transportation and logistical issues, HART identifies and develops governmental, donated, or reduced-rate transportation sources along with reliable in-country contacts and agencies to help assure safe portal-to-portal delivery of any type of humanitarian aid cargo. HART is operated in conjunction with MSNI - See item W1.

Hear Now - Contact: Joanita Selter - Hear Now provides hearing aids and cochlear implants to deaf and hearing-impaired persons who otherwise could not afford them. The organization collects new and used hearing aids for distribution, coordinates the philanthropic efforts of implant manufacturers, implant teams and local fundraising leaders; and enables service clubs and other organizations to sponsor low-income members of their communities needing hearing help.

HEART Institute - Contact: Dr. Joseph Mattox - The HEART Institute (Institute for Hunger Education and Resources Training) is designed to prepare people to serve more effectively in developing countries. HEART operates a professionally staffed community that simulates many aspects of living in low income countries. The Institute offers 3 to 15 week intensive training programs to missionary and Peace Corps volunteers on modern techniques of appropriate technology, cross-cultural communications skills, intensive gardening, food technology, primary health care, and small animal husbandry. In addition, HEART provides livestock, books, food, medical supplies, animal vaccines, computers and office furniture, vehicles and farming tools.

Heifer Project International - Contact:Wayne Jipsen - Heifer Project International helps hungry people feed themselves while also teaching them to care for the environment. The organization provides food and income producing animals, as well as the skills to care for them, to families in need. These families then pass on one or more of their animal's offspring to other needy families. All the participating families are required to make environmental improvements on their land, and each project is planned by members of the local community. The project also provides tools and equipment, veterinary supplies, vaccines and vitamins, textbooks, vehicles and trailers and salt blocks.

Hope Haven, Volunteers are making international outreach possible by donating time, talent, and resources. Hundreds of people have volunteered thousands of hours at HHIM. They collect, clean, repair, and pack donated wheelchairs and other equipment. They sort and organize parts. They assist with work in the office. They help load and unload trucks that are picking up or delivering wheelchairs. They drive our truck all over the Midwest to pick up wheelchairs. Internationally, Hope Haven supports wheelchair repair shops in the Dominican Republic, Romania, and Guatemala. Since this project began in 1994, 20,420 wheelchairs have gone to 74 countries around the globe. These wheelchairs are often the first step toward independence and self worth to the recipient.

HUNGER PLUS - W6, Contact: J. B. Roberts - Hunger Plus, Inc. is a US not-for-profit 501 ( c ) 3 corporation, founded by Rotarians who work for the reduction of hunger worldwide through programs that promote self-sufficiency. While Hunger Plus is an independent organization it supplies services to Rotarians, Rotary Clubs and Districts worldwide through its programs that are tailored for Rotary involvement. .

InterAction, . InterAction is American Council for Voluntary International Action and is a coalition of over 150 non-profit organizations working worldwide. It purports to be "the US's leading advocate for humanitarian assistance to the world's poor". The list of membership organizations is very impressive but Rotary is not shown, nor are Lions, Kiwanis, etc.

International Aid - W9, Contact Billy Teninty - International Aid was founded in 1980 in Spring Lake, MI as a 501-c-3 nonprofit organization. Our motto is "Changing Lives through the power of compassion." From our 100,000 sq. ft. facility and regional offices in Ghana, Honduras, Kosovo and the Philippines, we accomplish our mission through international programs, a mission resource center, a distribution center, volunteer relief teams and church volunteers mentoring at-risk children. Three international programs are in cooperation with Rotary clubs and Rotary International. They are:

1. The medical equipment repair training program in Bangalore, India is sponsored by Tumkur Rotary, Flint Michigan Rotary and RI through a matching grant.
2. Our partnership in Jamaica with Trilawny Outreach Project is sponsored by Spring Lake (MI) Rotary.
3. We are submitting a 3-H proposal through Mike Keckler and the Modesto (CA) Rotary with co-sponsors Rotary Club of Manila, and San Fernando City, La Union, Rotary. We will conduct a medical equipment repair training program in the Philippines.

International Book Bank - W35, Contact: Bradley K. Vogt - Founded in 1987, the International Book Bank (IBB) is a nonprofit, charitable organization. IBB supports literacy development projects and education by developing projects and education in the developing countries of the world. IBB's mission is to procure, process, and ship books and other educational materials to appropriate recipients in these areas. IBB works with a network of book donors, recipients and funding partners, advocates of literacy development to accomplish this important task. IBB shipped 57 containers of books/materials to 20 countries during 1999-2000.

International Book Project (IBP) - Contact: Ken DeGilio - IBP supplies needed quality books, free of charge, to schools, hospitals, organizations, clubs, and libraries worldwide. The mission is to promote education and literacy, to foster global friendships, and to strengthen world unity. More than 120,000 are sent to nearly 100 countries each year.

International Development Enterprises (IDE) Contact: Paul Polak, President - IDE is a non-profit organization that employs market principles to attack the roots of rural poverty in the world's least developed countries. Since 1981, IDE has helped small farmers to increase their agricultural productivity, providing them with a basis for income generation, integration with markets, and the beginnings of an upward spiral out of poverty. IDE has special expertise in developing pro-poor technologies and distributing them through market channels. Low-cost pumps, drip-irrigation systems, and water filters are examples of technologies that help to improve rural livelihoods and propel small farmers from subsistence agriculture to active market participation.

International Medical Equipment Collaborative (IMEC) - Contact: Thomas O'Keefe IMEC seeks to retrofit existing, but poorly equipped, hospitals and clinics in under developed areas of the world to become Centers of Health. Centers of Health provide inpatient, outpatient, preventative and educational services. IMEC projects are initially identified by "shepherding" organizations established by other humanitarian aid organizations, such as in-country health care systems, religious groups or service organizations. The partner shepherding organization, IMEC and the receiving facility collaborate to complete the project over a three to five year period by sending multiple 40 foot sea containers of donated medical equipment, supplies, educational materials and medical textbooks at no cost to the recipient facility.

IMEC is currently involved in forty-five projects located in Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. In the past eight years, fifteen Rotary projects have been supported.

InterVol, Contact: Doug Castner, InterVol is dedicated to the collection and re-distribution of medical supplies, the world-wide delivery of medical care, protecting the environment and community education.

ISIS Medical Solutions, LLC - Contact: Michael Callaghan- This for-profit organization can provide used critical care equipment manufactured by major companies at a reduced price.

Keckler Medical Co. Inc. - W22, Contact: J. Michael Keckler - Keckler Medical is a distributor of hospital critical care capital equipment for hospital and clinic use. We take used hospital equipment as trade in for new equipment and we buy hospitals, clinics, are warehouses of medical equipment which we biomedically repair and ship around the world. We ship a 40' container approximately every 90 days. We have been granted 3-H Grants for Rotary projects in biomed and currently have an application in for a $475,000 grant for a biomedical training school for the Philippines. We warehouse equipment in Oakdale, CA approx. 12,000 sq ft. We are currently renting 40,000 sq. ft. for a hospital disposable supplies sale we are conducting to raise money for medical missions around the world. We have worked with NGOs like World Vision, Intern. Aid and Medical Relief.

KURE Foundation - W32, Contact: H. Dwain Griffin - The David Livingston Kure Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Since 1970 we have been building total care orphanages, performing disaster relief efforts in more than 30 countries, providing feeding programs for malnourished children, and free medical health clinics in poverty-stricken third world countries. We have networked with civic organizations such as Rotary Clubs and Lions Clubs. We have also partnered with other NGOs and churches worldwide. We have established educational programs in Ukraine using American teachers to teach ESL programs. We have also run youth summer camp programs in the Ukraine since 1998. We own and operate orphanages in Mexico, the Ukraine, and the Philippines. We support 11 more in Korea and work with others in India, Argentina, Kenya, Suriname, and Thailand.

Lifewater International - W45 - Contact: John Nadolski - Lifewater International is a relief and development organization of volunteer Christian water resource management specialists based in the USA. We have150+ volunteers currently serving; well drillers, hydro geologists, mechanical engineers, water company executives, environmental scientists and business persons. Lifewater's volunteers travel to developing countries and train nationals to improve their water resources. We leave all necessary equipment with a trained national crew and continue to provide technical and financial support until they are self-sufficient.

MAP International - W23, Contact: Mark Walker - MAP International is a non-profit Christian relief and development organization that promotes the total health of people living in the world's poorest communities. MAP, founded in 1954 as Medical Assistance Programs, has as its mission to promote the Total Health of people living in the world's poorest communities by partnering in the:

1. Provision of Essential Medicines
2. Prevention and Eradication of Disease and
3. Promotion of Community Health Development

MAP is a primary provider of donated medicines and medical supplies in the world and is a leader in the development of standards for the use of donated medicines. In times of natural or man-made disaster, MAP quickly responds with appropriate medicines requested from the field. MAP works to prevent disease through a comprehensive network of education and immunization programs. MAP's primary focus for development programs is to provide adequate training on health related issues to empower people to care for those within their own communities

Medical Equipment and Supplies - W20 , Contact: - John H. Petty, DC - The Longview Rotary Club Medical Equipment and Supplies Project has collected various inventory and shipped to countries of Central and South America. This project is the result of John Petty leading a GSE team to Venezuela in 1996. After returning home he collected supplies to stock a small hospital in Eastern Venezuela and 45 Dialysis units for shipment and distribution to other cities throughout Venezuela. They have expanded their focus to other countries after a successful first project.

Medical Equipment and Supplies Abroad, Inc. (MESA) - W48, Contact: Jack Goodnight, PDG - MESA is an ongoing WCS Project of District 6600. It involves shipping of medical supplies and equipment to countries in need. MESA invites participation from other Rotary Clubs and Districts.

Medical Mission Program -W5 , Contact: Jean Wells - The Medical Mission Program began in January 1999 as a domestic and international community service project. We have worked in collaboration with Operation Condor in shipments and staff to Peru. Also, with Intervol at the Rosebud Indian Reservation in S.D. Intervol has a 20,000 Sq. Ft. warehouse of recycled medical equipment and have been our main supplier thus far.

MediSend International - W42, Contact: Susan M. Rowe - MediSend International was founded in 1990 by Dr. Martin Lazar. The mission is to collect surplus medical supplies and equipment for distribution to public/charity institutions in developing countries. MediSend provides local and national mission groups with these items for their projects and partners with Rotary Clubs and other organizations. Over the past ten years MediSend has made 304 shipments to 58 nations on 5 continents valued at $ 6.25 million (US).

Mission of Love Foundation - Contact Kathleen M. Price The Mission of Love is a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid to those in need throughout the world, specially children. Backed by individuals, local businesses and the U.S. Government's Denton Program, the Mission of Love airlifts clothing, medicine, food and building supplies to third world countries. Once the supplies arrive, volunteers, both young and old, from all walks of life, are there to utilize the supplies by building medical clinics, repairing orphanages, and administering medical treatment to the ill and serving those in need.

Mission Without Borders, International - Contact: Dr. Bruce A. Woodling, Medical Director - Mission Without Borders is an international Christian organization, founded in 1960, dedicated to serving the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those suffering the effects of poverty or persecution. By involving those it serves, Mission Without Borders recognizes the dignity of the individual and strives to help build capacity for self-sufficiency. People are served without regard to their religion or ethnic background. Current projects provide aid in the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, and China. Long-term local presence in these countries, as well as the employment of primarily national staff, enables Mission Without Borders to identify and address the most important and urgent needs.

MSNI (Medical Supplies Network, Inc.)W1 - , Contact: Larry Biron - MSNI is a project started in 1992 by Rotarian Jack Maxwell after a trip to the Philippines. It consists of two 6000 sq. ft. warehouses that are owned by this 501-c-3 non-profit corporation. We rent one for income and use the other for our operations. Since 1996 MSNI has shipped 37 forty foot containers of medical equipment and supplies to 13 different countries. Most of our shipments are WCS projects with other Rotary clubs overseas. However, MSNI has partnered with NGOs and a few church groups involved with medical missions. In addition, we have helped 8 or 10 local and regional charities by making donations of medical inventory to their needs.

Mercy Corps - Contact:Rachel Lieber - Mercy Corps exists to help alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. The agencies programs now reach 4 million people in more than 25 countries. Mercy Corps pursues its mission through Emergency Relief Services, Sustainable Community Development, and Civil Society Initiatives.

Nurses With a Mission - W46, Contact: Mauri Barnes - Nurses With a Mission is a group of operating room nurses desiring to help make a difference in the world. They collect surplus surgical supplies, make up surgical packs, sterilize them in their hospital facilities and provide them to various groups performing medical projects. In addition to surgical supplies and packs, they can supply medications, clothing, toys and dolls, and school supplies.

Operation Eyesight Universal - Contact: Pat Ferguson, President - The Mission of Operation Eyesight Universal is to encourage, develop, and fund effective and sustainable blindness prevention and sight restoration programs directed to people in the greatest need. People are treated without regard to gender, caste, creed or religion. Our Vision is: All may enjoy the Gift of Sight. OEU works in partnership with eye hospitals in developing nations. All of its overseas work is performed by indigenous medical teams who receive resources, equipment and training funded by OEU. Operation Eyesight Universal provides funding for programs in: blindness prevention; sight restoration; ophthalmic training and education for professionals; training and support for grass-roots workers and volunteers; infrastructure development; the purchase of equipment and supplies; and the distribution of free eyewear. Each year Operation Eyesight provides eye exams for 2 million men, women and children and has a goal to fund sight restoration surgery for 100,000 people around the world.

Operation USA - Operation USA assists developing communities in the USA and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural and man-made disasters and chronic poverty through the creation of sustainable health, nutrition and disaster response programs. They provide essential materials, training and advocacy and financial support.

Operation Vision - Contact: Martin Singer- Operation Vision involves setting up a local organization in a disadvantaged country, which will provide visual improvement to local indigent people. We charge a Rotary club $100 (plus costs of transport of personnel, lunch or other such costs, and publicity) to gather about 500 indigent people at a central point where local optometrists can do eye exams. After screening out those who do not need visual help, the optometrists (who are recruited from the senior class of local optometric schools and who do the work as part of their training program) can perform their eye exams. Those, who need eyeglasses, then select from an assortment of men's, women's and children's plastic or metal frames what they want and those frames, together with the eyeglass prescription, are sent to our stockroom. Then, our stock person (the only employee) matches the Rx with the lenses on hand, sends them to be edged and mounted, and then places them in cases that contain the Rotary wheel and a Rotary slogan. The patient, who has paid $1.50, receives the glasses about 2 weeks after the campaign.

Oxfam America- Oxfam America supports self-help efforts of poor and marginalized people striving to better their lives. It also provides emergency aid when disaster strikes, assisting refugees and survivors of natural disasters.

Pan American Development Foundation, Contact: Pilar Heraud, Phone 1-202-458-6316 - The Foundation works to foster development activities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The organization, which is affiliated with the Organization of American States (OAS), supports non-profit health care facilities and vocational training institutions by providing donated equipment and supplies. A bi-monthly list of donated medical equipment allows recipients to choose from the items available.

Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) Contact: Jim Russo -The Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) is an alliance of private voluntary organizations and medical product manufacturers dedicated to raising standards of medical donations to meet the needs of underserved populations and disaster victims around the world.

Pedals for Progress - Contact: David Schweidenback - Pedals for Progress recycles used bicycles from the USA, sending them with new spare parts and tools to partner agencies overseas. Often bicycle repair shops are set up, creating training and job opportunities. The bicycles may also be sold, although not necessarily at market price, to people who need transportation for work and other daily activities.

Project Concern International - Contact: Uli Heine - Project Concern International helps underprivileged people all over the world with AIDS education and prevention. They also assist with other health concerns including maternal care and fighting of infant diseases.

Project CURE - W19, Contact: W. Douglas Jackson Project CURE was founded in 1987 by James W. Jackson, a successful entrepreneur and international economic consultant. He had observed ill and needy walking for miles and waiting for hours to obtain primitive medical attention. CURE is a 501-c-3 non-profit corporation operating warehouses in Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Ocean containers of medical equipment (90 TEU's in 1999) have been shipped to needy clinics and hospitals in 81 countries. CURE partners with other NGOs and many Rotary Clubs all over the USA

Project Hope, , Contact: Carter Hall - 1(540)837-2100 - Project Hope's guiding philosophy is that good health is essential for social and economic development and ultimately for the dignity of every human being. For this reason, Project Hope aims to improve health standards throughout the world by providing the tools and education necessary for people to help themselves. The organization's activities range from developing a system to train and utilize rural health programs, distribution of equipment, supplies, medicines, textbooks, vitamins, vaccines, office equipment, and vehicles, and establishment of medical education programs.

REMEDY - Contact: Dr. William Rosenblatt - Working with hospitals, REMEDY teaches health care workers how to recover unused but discarded operating room supplies and donate them to established USA charities for distribution to developing nations.

Rotaplast International, Inc - W30, Contact: Anita Stangl - A World Community Service Project in partnership with Rotary Clubs to provide free reconstructive surgery for children. In it's 8th year, Rotaplast has now performed over 2000 surgeries in South America. After the Rotary International Convention in Singapore, Rotaplast has invitations to expand it's services to India, the Philippines, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Benin.

Rotary Blood Bank Technology Exchange -W15 , Contact: Charles Kurtzman - The Blood Bank Technology Exchange was created to redeploy about $1.5 million worth of blood bank lab equipment donated by our regional blood center, Carter BloodCare. The project foresees personnel training and intercountry exchanges facilitated by Rotary Clubs. We are evaluating expansion of this project.

Rotary Hospital Medical Supplies for International Distribution (ROHMSID) - W47, Contact:Kurt Dale - ROHMSID collects, sorts and maintains an inventory of unused and reusable medical supplies, and makes them available to medical related programs for developing countries. Presently we collect from twenty Twin Cities hospitals, clinics and medical centers plus a wide variety of medical device manufacturers, product representatives and related companies. Founded in 1992, ROHMSID has 4000 square feet of sorting and warehouse space and has regularly served over 150 groups and programs in 47 countries.

Rotary World Help Network (RWHN) – W21, Contact:Carlos Esquivel Formally established in 1997, RWHN, a registered non-profit society in the province of British Columbia, and registered as a charity with Revenue Canada. The RWHN is sanctioned by Rotary International as a District Organization. The project originally began as a WCS project of the Vancouver Club in 1993 with a shipment of medical supplies to Kiev. The Rotarians who started the project were Bill Richwa, Ralph Towsley and Ted Segodnia from the Rotary Club of Vancouver. The Rotary Club of Vancouver continued to send shipments and demand grew beyond what one club could handle. Seven clubs founded the RWHN in September 1997 and membership has grown to 40 clubs spanning 5 Districts. Each member club pays a $10 per member per year membership fee and can sponsor a shipment to a Rotary Club in another country for $2,500. Non-member clubs can sponsor shipments for $2,500, plus two year’s membership dues, provided a member club is not on the waiting list.

We are currently using temporary donated warehouse space of approximate 3,000 square feet. We have assisted with the Polio Plus Project in the Ukraine by supplying lab furniture and equipment for testing facilities and with the 3H Hearing Health Care Program Zimbabwe. We have also worked with consulates to arrange special shipments to Ecuador, Guatemala, and Venezuela and a city-twinning arrangement between Port Moody and Harare. We liaise with other NGOs for assistance. In our first six years since incorporation in 1997, the RWHN has sent 103 container shipments to 30 different countries. Before incorporation, the Rotary Club of Vancouver sent 10 shipments.

Sabre Foundation, Inc. -Contact: Tania Vitvitsky - Founded in 1969, Sabre works to build free institutions and to examine the ideals that sustain them. Its largest current project makes millions of dollars worth of donated new books available to needy individuals in the developing and transitional societies worldwide through nongovernmental partner organizations, libraries, universities, schools, hospitals and clinics, etc. There is also a program of Internet training.

Saving Lives Worldwide - W10, Contact: Helen Donaldson, - The Saving Lives Worldwide Program began in January 1996 as part of the Rotary Club of Louisville's International Service Committee. Initially, SLW worked closely with the local county medical society's Supplies Over Seas program -- providing and managing all transportation and foreign distribution logistics in partnership with the medical society.

Later the SLW Program became independent, and partnered with other organizations like the Rotary Club of Cincinnati. During its first four years of operation, SLW has made (8) substantial shipments of medical equipment and supplies to Riga Latvia, Bucharest, Romania, Panama City Panama, Nicaragua, Accra & Tamale Ghana. In 1999, through a partnership with Cincinnati and Panamanian Rotarians, two new dental clinics were established in the "outback" regions of Panama to serve the poorest of the poor children regionally.

The SLW program operates with ad hoc Rotarian support, short-term warehouse space, and modest financial contributions for unavoidable expenses. The program's copyrighted motto is Saving Lives, Bringing Hope, Building Peace Worldwide. The SLW program also boasts a striking logo, which is captured on Certificates of Recognition given to program donors. 2000 Plans include "moving" the Club's SLW program to the District 6710 Level, similar to the Tulsa MSNI District 6110 Program.

Seeds of Hope Contact: A. Reyes The goal of Seeds of Hope is to facilitate the gathering and distribution of seed stock and farming implements to communities in need of assistance.

Sight Savers International -Contact: Richard B. Porter - In 1999 Sight Savers celebrated 25 years of working in partnership with Rotary Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Together we have restored sight to three quarters of a million blind men, women and children. They provide services, training and materials at little or no cost to the poorest people in many areas.

Send a Cow - Uganda was devastated by a long civil war. Most of the quality dairy cows died, making milk a luxury that few could afford. In 1988 a Ugandan bishop, having seen milk surpluses in the UK, appealed to British farmers for help. A group of Christian farmers responded, by sending not milk, but cows. The first plane-load of cows left Gatwick in June 1988, arriving at Entebbe quarantine farm 12 hours later. Over 300 cows were flown from the UK between 1988 and 1996. It is now Send a Cow policy to purchase all animals in Africa.

Sunstove Solar Cookers - W18, Contact: Richard C. Wareham - The SUNSTOVE is a low-cost, user-friendly, portable, quality solar cooker designed by Rotarian Richard C. Wareham in 1992. Rotary Clubs in Calcutta, India and the SUNSTOVE Organization in Johannesburg, South Africa build the unit (for US$20.00) with a housing molded from reground plastic. It is also fabricated by hand (for US $10.00) with local materials by the Mission Mazahua in Mexico. The key to the design is a large solar window, no external reflectors to blow away and local scrap aluminum printing plates for internal and exterior walls. Most important - It can be built by hand with materials available in every country.

Tools for Self Reliance, Contact: Sam Platt - Based in United Kingdom, Tools collects, refurbishes and ships tools and sewing machines to countries in Africa.,

UNICEF, Edukit - Contact: Meg Gardinier, US Fund for UNICEF, NY - This project is similar to the RIBI project # 6 above.

Warehouse Project of District 5370 - W34, Contact - Zen Moisey, - This Warehouse Project of District 5370 is the collection, storage, shipping of Humanitarian Aid and Emergency Items. We will concentrate on emergency aid and disaster relief.

WCS Project, D6940 - W13, Contact: Randall Spencer - Costa Rica Mobile Medical Dental Units: Established for the purpose of providing medical or dental facilities to any worthwhile missionary group. Two units 8 X 24 are equipped for medical exams and medical dispensing. They are equipped with A/C and generators and may be transported to a specific site. Clinica Biblica is the host group in Costa Rica and has usually identified the very needy locations. Two other units 8 X 24 are equipped for dental use. Each has three stations equipped with RotoDents. Dentists provide their own instruments. Three Cavitrons are also available. Please note: Costa Rica is strict on bringing in out of date meds. 1 to 2 days are required for customs.

Wheels for Humanity, Contact: David Richard - Wheels for Humanity collects, restores and with the help of other relief and development agencies, wheelchairs, and distributes them to developing countries. Each recipient is matched up with the wheelchair that best fits their needs.

Wheelchair Foundation , Contact: Chris Lewis- The mission of the Wheelchair Foundation is to deliver a wheelchair to every man, woman and child in the world who needs one. For those individuals, the Wheelchair Foundation offers hope, freedom, self-reliance and mobility. Rotary is partnering with the Wheelchair Foundation andJon B. Grant, DDS is the Rotary contact.

World Concern- World Concern's mission is to overcome human suffering through emergency relief, rehabilitation and long-term development so that individuals and families can be in the right relationship with God, one another and creation.

World Dental Relief, Inc., Contact: Ron Lamb, DDS - Collects excess dental equipment, stores, and ships all over the world. They work closely with Rotary.

World Relief - World Relief provides international assistance and refugee settlement. It concentrates on agriculture and food production, disaster and emergency relief, micro enterprise development, cooperatives and credit.

World Vision - W26, World Vision Gift In Kind (GIK) department sends new donated product to various countries throughout the world. The products shipped are in direct response to needs identified in the field from our various offices. Our GIK products are integrated into ongoing community development and child sponsorship projects in countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. We have national offices in all of the countries we serve.