Helping people in Liberia

2007: Emergency Relief Response Fund provided grants supporting the ministry of Mercy Ships at port in Monrovia, Liberia. This was the first medical mission for “Africa Mercy,” a former Danish rail ferry that was converted into the world’s largest state-of-the-art charity hospital ship. Its crew of over 450 provides free health care and community services to Africa’s forgotten poor. The ship has 6 operating rooms, intensive care and ward bed space for 78 patients at a time. Up to 7,000 surgical interventions can be made per year. In addition to treatments performed onboard, ship-based teams visit local villages, providing a wide variety of services including dental and medical clinics, community health education, HIV/AIDS intervention, water and sanitation projects.

Helping people in Mexico

2007: Emergency Relief Response Fund shipped a truckload of assorted baled clothing weighing 40,000 pounds to a mission in Tijuana. Packets of clothing were given to over 2,000 low-income families living in the slum areas of northern Baja California. Fair market value of the shipment was $240,000.

Helping people in Peru

2007: Emergency Relief Response Fund shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with assorted medicines and pharmaceutical supplies to a mission organization in Lima. Its contents were distributed through the mission’s clinics and local church volunteers to benefit more than 50,000 suffering people. The donation had a fair market value of $7,514,080.