April 2017 e-news
Delivering a World of Health and Hope .
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Saving Lives With Your Support
The support of our donors and partners has enabled SOS to provide improved healthcare to thousands in need. In the first 3 months of 2017, SOS has shipped 5 containers of medical supplies and equipment and equipped 26 mission teams. All told we have delivered "Health & Hope" to 19 countries. These numbers are a sharp increase over last year. So far this year we have sent 64,817 lbs compared to 25,844 lbs in the first three months of 2016.
One of the containers we sent was to the
St. Boniface Haiti Foundation . SOS is proud to partner with an organization doing so much to provide health and hope to the people of Haiti at a price they can afford. This is the second container SOS sent to St. Boniface Haiti Foundation since Hurricane Matthew. We are committed to continued support of St. Boniface Haiti Foundation , which:
  • Treats around 100,000 patients each year
  • Performs around 200 surgeries each month
  • Provides 6,500 pre-natal exams a year
  • No patient pays more than $1 for care
Nursing students providing exams and treating infections in Nicaragua.
Container of supplies being unloaded at the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation
Love From Louisville

SOS was honored to help lead Love From Louisville, a humanitarian effort to send supplies to refugees outside Athens, Greece. This project was a collaboration with The Center for Interfaith Relations and The Muslim Americans for Compassion with the support of the Mayor Fischer's Office. Families all over Louisville donated clothing, toys, personal hygiene items, diapers plus so much more.

Donations were packed and sorted at SOS by more than 140 volunteers. We sent 1,505 boxes & 44,763 lbs of supplies.

UPS has graciously volunteered to fly pallets of donated food to provide immediate relief. The balance is in route in ocean going containers made possible with financial donations from the community and Kosair Charities. The City of Louisville showed their compassion for others in need with help from several organizations including:

Mayor Greg Fischer helping organize donations as part of the Give A Day Program.
Boxes of supplies ready to be shipped.
Dick Deats, SOS Board Member and UPS Corporate Transportation Systems Manager, discussing UPS's commitment to compassion and offer to send immediate relief to refugees.
Health & Hope to Honduras
Leanne-Sarah Gnamba, a senior at Walden High School, raised funds to ship medical supplies to the Simon Contreras Medical Clinic in Marcala, Honduras as her senior project. SOS had previously partnered with Safai Coffee to send a 40-ft container to this clinic, but they still had a need for more obstetric supplies to help care for new mothers and babies.
Leanne at SOS helping pack supplies and with the pallet she raised funds to ship to Honduras.
"The idea came when my mother said 'Leanne, do you know that you are blessed and privileged to have everything at hands reach? In my country (Cote d’Ivoire), when people have a simple illness they wait in suffering because of the lack of availability of medicine and money to purchase it.' When she told me that, it struck something in me and I knew I had to do something about it." -Leanne-Sarah Gnamba.

"This pallet is indeed a wonderful surprise for Marcala’s Clinic!  It will be of GREAT HELP especially for the many mothers and babies that attend the clinic." -Maritza Midence

SOS is grateful that we were able to support Leanne's commitment to help others!
Thank You For Your Support!
Brackets for Good
SOS was a first time competitor in Brackets for Good, a March Madness style fund-raising tournament for local nonprofits.

SOS made it to the Engaged 8 with support from our donors. Thank you for making the tournament a success and helping us raise over $5,000! We look forward to competing again next year.
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