eNewsletter Archive

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  • Building Hope in Haiti

    April 2008

    La Providence, the only hospital in Gonaïves, Haiti, a city with more than 300,000 inhabitants, was devastated by Hurricane Jeanne in 2004. Since the storm hit, the hospital buildings have been deteriorating, power has been unpredictable, and government funding has been unreliable. [read more]

  • A 'Successful Venture': The MedShare, Emory Healthcare and Nigerian Collaboration

    March 2008

    During 2007, MedShare and Emory Healthcare expanded their long-term partnership, taking the typical role of a hospital – a source of medical supplies and equipment – one step further. Emory Healthcare provided the financial sponsorship for a forty-foot MedShare container, demonstrating once again its sincere commitment to improve health, conserve environmental resources, and help the global community. [read more]

  • Heartbreak and Hope in Kenya

    February 2008

    News stories reporting widespread violence following the disputed re-election of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki began to circulate this past December. Most people reading or hearing the news feel sadness for those impacted by the contention and the resulting violence, but few have personal connections to Kenya or a tangible way to help. [read more]

  • MedShare Shipment Takes Flight to Angola

    January 2008

    The term shipping usually conjures an image of a boat on the water. And that is how MedShare containers filled with much-needed medical supplies and equipment typically reach their destinations – by ship. Next month, however, MedShare will send a 40-foot container to the Republic of Angola by airplane. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: MedShare and CURE International in Afghanistan

    December 2007

    In 2005, CURE established a 115-bed hospital and family clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. In order to obtain the enormous amount of supplies and equipment needed to outfit a hospital this size, CURE turned to MedShare. [read more]

  • Season of Hope: Special Edition

    November 2007

    Season of Hope, MedShare's unique year-end giving campaign, allows donors to purchase medical items in the name of an honoree. These items will be sent overseas to a needy institution. Following the purchase, MedShare will send a gift card to the honoree to commemorate the gift. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: MedSharing a World of Art

    October 2007

    A wonderful evening of great food, live music, beautiful works of art, exciting silent auction items and crafts from around the world will be enjoyed by all who attend MedShare's second annual art auction fundraiser, MedSharing a World of Art. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: Clinton Foundation Partnership

    September 2007

    Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World is the title of President Bill Clinton's latest book, and it speaks exactly to the innovative approach MedShare is taking to balance the supply and demand of medical supplies around the world. In fact, MedShare is recognized in the book, in the chapter entitled "Giving Things." [read more]

  • Not Your Average High School Road Trip

    August 2007

    While most high school students spent their last few days of summer vacation lounging at the pool or frantically finishing their summer reading lists, Steph Daussin drove from Apex, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to deliver medical supplies to MedShare. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: Yemage Medical Center in Harar, Ethiopia

    July 2007

    In 1997, when Sebri Omer returned to visit his family and homeland in Harar, Ethiopia after 20 years, he was a successful small business owner and self-made man who lived in metro-Atlanta with his wife and four children. Visiting a cousin in Harar's antiquated public hospital changed his life and began this story. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: Restore

    June 2007

    It takes the hearts and hands of many volunteers to sort and organize the tons of surplus medical equipment and supplies that MedShare collects, catalogs, and ships to clinics and hospitals in economically developing countries. One very devoted group of volunteers is organized by the Restore Neurobehavioral Center, which is based in Roswell, Georgia (US). [read more]

  • Spotlight On: Medical Mission to Haiti

    May 2007

    In March 2007, Jason Prystowsky, MD, MPH led a team of Emory medical students on a medical mission to a remote rural area in Haiti's Central Plateau region near the Dominican Republic border. [read more]

  • Spotlight On: The Democratic Republic of Congo

    April 2007

    "We must be hopeful," says Dr. Albert Mutombo Tshipeta, a pediatrician from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), when asked about his thoughts on the future of his country. Dr. Tshipeta works at Centre Hospitalier in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, where hope is sometimes in as short supply as medical supplies and equipment. [read more]

Global Partner Archive

MedShare's print newsletter Global Partner is an in-depth update on all of our work. Previous editions (pdf) are available online here.