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CEO Corner: MedShare in Haiti!
From our thousands of volunteers to our amazing product and financial donors to the doctors and nurses in the hospitals and clinics we serve, the MedShare family is truly extraordinary. They represent...
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A day in Haiti’s Central Plateau with Partners in Health
We met in the morning bright and early at 7:30, then headed to an orphanage run by Partners In Health, where we met Cate, the local director, Jesse, the procurement officer, and Daniel, who runs...
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CEO Corner: Environmental Sustainability at Mirebelais Hospital
Our MedShare travelers in Haiti are spending a lot of time learning about health issues…. and, we are all also environmentalists at heart and committed to the positive impact MedShare has on our U.S....
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A Morning with Mona Adam, Bureau de la Premiere Dame de la Republique d’Haiti
Mona Adam, the First Lady’s Nurse Envoy, gave us the government perspective on health care, insight into the differences between public and private healthcare and the challenges faced by the only...
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Community Building in Rural Haiti
On Tuesday, our friends from Food for The Poor (FFTP) brought us to visit Dr. Michel Henry Brutus and his unbelievable creation, H.E.L.P. (Health Education Learning Project). H.E.L.P. has received...
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MedShare visits the 410 Bridge Housing Project for the Deaf near Leveque, Haiti
On Wednesday afternoon, January 30, our group traveled through Port-au-Prince’s incredibly congested traffic and headed northwest out of the city to Leveque. There we visited a unique community of...
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St. Damien Hospital: Focusing on the GOOD in Haiti
“People talk about everything that is wrong with Haiti instead of focusing on what is right with the country.” Saint Damien’s founder, Father Rick We arrived at Saint Damien pediatric hospital on a...
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Addressing maternal & child health issues in Latin America
MedShare has recently been given the exciting opportunity to partner together with Kimberly-Clark Healthcare to make a strategic investment in improving child and maternal health in Latin America. This...
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MedShare in Bolivia: Making Pregnancy Safer for the Bolivian Aymara People
The town of Copacabana is nestled high up in the Bolivian Altiplano (“high plateau”) on the shore of the world’s most elevated lake, the Titicaca. To get there from the main city of La Paz, one must...
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MedShare in Uganda: “The Pearl of Africa,” from MedShare’s COO
Uganda is located in East-Central Africa, west of Kenya and east of The Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the poorest nations in the world, with 37.7 percent of the population living on...
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Share a comment about an inspirational woman in your life with us — one story will be chosen to be featured as a special post on our blog!
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Today is World Health Day!
Each year a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of public health concern. This year, the focus is on hypertension, known more commonly as high blood pressure. This...
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A great celebration of MedShare’s 900th shipment!
On Tuesday, April 9th we celebrated our 900th humanitarian aid shipment. MedShare is so proud of all of our staff, board and council members, volunteers, donors, and other supporters for making this...
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MedShares Celebrates Our 900th Aid Shipment
In the most underdeveloped countries in the world, children and adults suffer and die every day because their doctors, hospitals and clinics, do not have the necessary supplies and equipment to...
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Happy Earth Day!
As part of our commitment to building healthy communities locally and globally, every day we work to do our part in improving the environment by redirecting medical surplus in the United States. Last...
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MedShare celebrates National Volunteer Week!
National Volunteer Week (April 21 – 27) was a time to celebrate people helping people. This week focuses national attention on the impact and power of volunteerism and service as an integral aspect of...
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CEO Corner: How can we avoid the irrelevance trap?
Earlier this week, I attended InterAction’s annual Forum in Washington, D.C. along with 1,000 other folks. Interaction was created in 1984 and is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international...
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MedShare celebrates volunteer service!
The end of National Volunteer Week was marked by a special event at MedShare West’s facility on the afternoon of Saturday, April 27. Our warehouse was transformed into Candy Land as we welcomed more...
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The Atlanta Girls’ School sends off their container to Guatemala!
Yesterday afternoon, we had the privilege of celebrating the Atlanta Girls’ School‘s fundraising and service accomplishments by sending off their container of medical supplies to Hospitalito Atitlán in...
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Double the Impact // Double the Healing
Will you help us meet our goal to send 20,000 boxes of medical supplies during the month of June? Your tax deductible donation made by June 30, 2013 will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to the...
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