Compassionate Justice International
Compassionate Hands
Medical Supplies Relief Project
Recently, CJI's South African Director Muchengetwa Bgoni, returned from a three week trip to Zimbabwe. While there he came face to face with how badly things have deteriorated in this once grand nation. Desperately in need of a simple catheter for his mother, he spent 24 hours frantically combing the city to find just one! Once he did, he had to beg to even be allowed to purchase it.
Not to long ago, his
childhood friend died. All she needed was some simple antibiotics that we purchase for $10 at our local pharmacy! Tragic as it sounds, at the moment, doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe can't heal people, they can only help them die.
Compounding the injustice of it all, here in America, everyday millions of dollars of medical supplies are thrown away simply because they have passed their expiration date. Its not that they are unusable or even bad, its that they have passed their shelf life as determined by the FDA. This is a benefit we have living in a prosperous nation. What's on our shelves is most always new and fresh.
While a pain reliever may have lost 5% of it potency, its still 95% better than what someone in Zimbabwe has now which is nothing! A few years ago, we were able to give a kidney dialysis machine to medical personal in Guatemala. Where did we get it? From a local hospital that was throwing it out because it was upgrading to a newer model. The nation of Zimbabwe has not had a kidney dialysis machine in the country since the 1990's!
In an effort help keep people alive, Compassionate Justice is launching a new project called "Compassionate Hands". We are asking for your help.
Please contact; hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, retail stores etc. Ask them if instead of throwing out expired medical supplies, they would donate them (getting a tax deduction) to our relief efforts in Zimbabwe.
If you have further questions please contact us at:
Kansas City Office: (913) 239-0042
Joplin Office: (417) 434-7308
Not to long ago, his
childhood friend died. All she needed was some simple antibiotics that we purchase for $10 at our local pharmacy! Tragic as it sounds, at the moment, doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe can't heal people, they can only help them die.Compounding the injustice of it all, here in America, everyday millions of dollars of medical supplies are thrown away simply because they have passed their expiration date. Its not that they are unusable or even bad, its that they have passed their shelf life as determined by the FDA. This is a benefit we have living in a prosperous nation. What's on our shelves is most always new and fresh.
While a pain reliever may have lost 5% of it potency, its still 95% better than what someone in Zimbabwe has now which is nothing! A few years ago, we were able to give a kidney dialysis machine to medical personal in Guatemala. Where did we get it? From a local hospital that was throwing it out because it was upgrading to a newer model. The nation of Zimbabwe has not had a kidney dialysis machine in the country since the 1990's!
In an effort help keep people alive, Compassionate Justice is launching a new project called "Compassionate Hands". We are asking for your help.
Please contact; hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, retail stores etc. Ask them if instead of throwing out expired medical supplies, they would donate them (getting a tax deduction) to our relief efforts in Zimbabwe.
If you have further questions please contact us at:
Kansas City Office: (913) 239-0042
Joplin Office: (417) 434-7308
Next Container Shipment Fall 2009
We are planning a trip to Zimbabwe to meet the supplies there and help unpack and set up a medical clinic with our Zimbabwean partners Tatenda & Lucia Gunguwo of Voice of Peace. With so much of their work in the bush country, plans are currently in progress for outfitting a school bus as a portable medical clinic in order to reach those with no access to medical care.
Please consider helping us with the shipping container cost of US $12,000
We have currently collected enough medical supplies for our first container shipment to Zimbabwe in December of 2009. Work begins in October to unpack, repack, inventory and stage the shipment for the arrival of the container. Once packed it will head overseas via ship and arrive in Zimbabwe in January 2010.
We are planning a trip to Zimbabwe to meet the supplies there and help unpack and set up a medical clinic with our Zimbabwean partners Tatenda & Lucia Gunguwo of Voice of Peace. With so much of their work in the bush country, plans are currently in progress for outfitting a school bus as a portable medical clinic in order to reach those with no access to medical care.
Please consider helping us with the shipping container cost of US $12,000
