July e-News From Supplies Over Seas (SOS)

July 2016 e-News

Delivering a World of Health and Hope .

S upplies Over Seas (SOS) is a Louisville, Kentucky-based nonprofit organization that meets
critical health care needs in medically impoverished communities around the world by collecting and distributing surplus medical supplies and equipment.

SOS Needs Your Help

Every day, SOS collects what our healthcare system can no longer use and sends it to medically impoverished communities around the globe.

In 2015 we received over 153 tons of medical supplies and equipment from our regional partners that would have otherwise gone into our landfills. This is huge and w e could not do it without our amazing volunteers and donors who help us send health and hope across the world.

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Thank You for Supporting Our Work to Bring Health and Hope to the World

Tuesday Tours at SOS!

Our next Tuesday Tour is July 12!

Join SOS for an opportunity to learn more about how we deliver health and hope to communities around the world while saving tons of medical surplus from our landfills!

2016 dates:

July 12
August 9
September 13
October 11
November 8
December 13

Agenda for Tuesday Tours

7:30 am Networking & Light Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 am SOS Introduction & Tour

This is a FREE Event, but your RSVP is requested

RSVP ONLINE

Bourbon & Band-Aids

SOS would like to invite you to join us for a "Band-Aid Raid" and bourbon tasting. The tasting with be in the SOS warehouse and we will be giving tours to let you know a little more about our mission and show you what we do. It's a great opportunity to learn about how we deliver Health & Hope while enjoying a drink.

Admission: a box of Band-Aids

August 18th

September 15th

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Volunteer Appreciation at Louisville Bats Game

Monday, August 22

Louisville Bats vs Toledo Mud Hens

7:05 pm First Pitch

RESERVE TICKETS

SOS wants to invite all our “All Star Volunteers” to the SOS Volunteer Appreciation Night at the Louisville Bats Game. Volunteers may reserve up to 4 tickets. If you need more than 4 tickets, contact Courteney Smith in the front office and she will put you on a wait list.

Thank You June Volunteer Groups!

SOS had 14 volunteer groups that helped sort and pack medical supplies. Volunteering as a group is a great way to work on team building while making a positive impact. Thank you all for helping prepare medical supplies to ship all over the globe!

If you have a group interested in volunteering, please contact our Volunteer Manager Karen Womack .

Baptish Health Nurses

Bellarmine School of Nursing

Brown-Forman

Canaan Christian Church

Genentech

Healthcare Asset Network

Humana

Humana - Team Neuhauser

Baptist Health - team of retired nurse

Jasper Memorial Hospital

University of Louisville PEPP ( Professional Education Preparation Program)

U of L Biomedical Engineer Students

UPS

Women in Networking (WIN 4)

Youth Works

UPS team packing boxes for shipping

Food for the Poor send Health & Hope to Haiti

In June, Supplies Over Seas (SOS) loaded a 40-ft container of medical supplies on a container bound for Haiti. The container was made possible through a partnership with Food For The Poor. The shipping container included over 10,000 pounds of donated supplies from SOS’s hospital partners and individuals across Kentucky packed in 453 boxes. Thank you for helping to bring Health & Hope.

Supplies packed and ready to be loaded

SOS team after loading the container

Helping Deliver Health & Hope with Mission: Mobility

UPS pilot and Mission: Mobility KY volunteer, Brad Clark, met with SOS to pick up wheelchairs we could not ship. Brad collects used wheelchairs to send to Guatemala. SOS loves partnering with Mission: Mobility to provide much needed supplies to and keep these wheelchairs out of landfills!