Apr
19
2010
"1.7M in Medical Aid Being Shipped As We Post"
Tom Kim, executive director of Churches Helping Churches, updated today about the latest massive amount of aid the ministry is shipping to Haiti to help the churches in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake earlier this year. Here's the update:
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50 pallets. 50,942 lbs. $1,705,561 of aid.
Those are the stats behind the latest medical aid we are sending into Haiti.
Where it’s going: New Missions has been planting churches that provide education and medical care in Haiti for the last 27 years. Their medical clinics, staffed 100% with Haitian leadership that New Missions has trained, are able to serve over 1,000 patients each month.
How it happened: After sharing about needed medicine, CHC contacted our partner, International Aid. Within 2 days, International Aid was able to secure a boatload (literally) of product.
I’ve been involved in many good business deals in my time, but I’m still scratching my head over this one. At a cost of $16,800 to CHC to procure and ship, we are able to bring over $1.7 million in aid to Haiti. I guess when God is in the equation, the numbers don’t have to add up.
-Tom
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