We are excited to announce that VIDA shipped $1.5 million in aid to our projects in Cuzco Peru in April 2013. A portion of these donations benefited our new partner clinic in Cuzco called Policlinico Belen, operated my nuns who are caring for single mothers and orphans. This project is also supported by doctors affiliated with USCF Medical School who visit the site two times a year as well as hundreds of boxes of medical supplies. VIDA has equipped the clinic with 20 hospital beds, 6 exam tables and other needed equipment and supplies. VIDA is re-supplying the clinic twice a year.
In addition VIDA is launching a new initiative that will benefit impoverished individuals who work in the Alpaca industry. The program is a collaboration between VIDA and alpaca designers KUNA (www.kuna.com.pe) and The Sandra Jordan Collection (www.sandrajordan.com) along with Napa Valley’s first lady of the wine industry Margrit Mondavi. A fundraising event will be held at the Mondavi Winery in October 2013.
It is your generous support that makes these projects possible. VIDA remains a responsible steward of your generosity by shipping $175 of aid for every $1 donated in 2012. All donations will go to covering the cost of shipments. Thank you for making our mission possible this year and in the future!
Four ocean containers and one airlift carrying over $4.5 million in aid arrived in Peru in March 2013. The three containers were filled to capacity with hospital beds, exam tables, wheelchairs, surgical kits along with thousand of boxes of much needed medical supplies.
These donations will be distributed to over 40 clinics and hospitals including programs that work with patients suffering from HIV. This donation will benefit tens of thousand of patients who are too poor to be able to receive medical treatment. La Comunidad de Ninos Sagrada Familia in Ventanilla, Peru is receiving one of the containers and will receive a portion of the antibiotic shipment. This orphanage houses and educates over 800 children ranging in age from birth to 16 years old. VIDA is committed to serving the long-term needs of the orphanage as well as helping to alleviate the immediate suffering of the children who are fighting infection due to poor sanitation and other risk factors associated with poverty.
We are also excited to announce that four shipments are leaving our warehouse in Emeryville carrying valuable medical supplies and equipment in May 2013. This will benefit tens of thousands of people suffering in Peru. VIDA is working hard to surpass our 24 shipments in 2012 and have set a goal of shipping 30 containers in 2013. This incredible program would not be possible without your support!
2012 was an extraordinary year for VIDA as we shipped a record 50 containers carrying nearly $30 million in aid. We have once again witnessed the boundless generosity of people like you who have answered the call to ease the pain and despair of our less fortunate brothers and sisters in Latin America.
For Haiti it a three year anniversary of the earthquake and thereafter rebuilding. Haiti still needs our help.
We currently have five containers of medical supplies, valued at $4 million, sitting in our warehouse ready for shipment to Latin America. Here is where you can help. For every $1 you donate, VIDA is able to send $160 in life-saving medical aid. This is an incredible accomplishment made possible by our dedicated VIDA volunteers, staff, and supporters.
VIDA honors the dignity of every individual throughout Latin America, from those living in the Andean communities of Peru, to the shantytowns of Haiti, to the coastal towns of Chile, to the urban centers of Ecuador. We are exceedingly grateful to all of our supporters who have so generously given their time, talents, and treasures to our mission.
Today, we ask you to help us reach our fresh goals for 2013 and bring the gift of LIFE to those in greatest need.
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