Project Report
| Aug 11, 2016
VIDA supplies Medical Mission to Chile
By Adam See | Executive Director
VIDA supplied a team of 12 medical professionals travelling from Northern California for a one week medical mission to Santiago. The team will be working in the poorest districts of Santiago. The team set up clinics on the streets of Santiago and delivered treatment and screening to over 1,000 patients. Among the supplies VIDA provided the team with were medicine, sutures, exam gloves, first aid items, thermometers, stethoscopes as well as a wide variety of supplies necessary to run a clinic.
VIDA is working on a arranging a new container to be sent in the fall of 2016 that will carry medical supplies and equipment that will be distributed to our partner in Santiago.
We thank you for you continued support in helping to serve the people of Chile.
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Mar 21, 2016
Spring shipment of medical aid for Santiago
By Patti Mangan | BOARD MEMEBER
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A walker comes in handy
Hello wonderful supporters of VIDA!
We thank you for the past support and the future as we continue to aid suburbs of Santago in collaboration with our local partner FEDES.
We work with a variety of local hospitals and small clinics - providing hospital beds, exam tables and other much needed equipment and supplies. We partner with the FEDES foundation to distribute the supplies where needed most to benefit thousands of families in the region all year long.
A specific need is wheelchairs - so we pack the containers with walkers, crutches and wheelchairs each time.
Thank you for making this unique and impactful meidcal relief program possible through your donations.
Please consider providing monthly donations - even $10 a month goes along way in our various programs. A typical morning coffee and muffin is equal $1,000 in supplies sent to a clinic in need this year. Consider committing one of your mornings to our cause.
thank you
Patti Mangan
VIDA BOARD MEMBER
ps - if anyone is living in the Calfiornia Bay Area and would like to volunteer sorting donations - check us out at vidausa.org.
PATTI MANGAN
Board Member VIDA USA
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Dec 22, 2015
VIDA prepares for first shipment to Chile
By Adam See | Executive Director
VIDA is preparing to send our first container to our Chilean partner FEDES in January 2016. The first container will carry medical supplies and equipment to benefit the numerous clinics in the suburbs of Santiago. These clinics serve some of the poorest people in the country. The value of the shipment will exceed $500,000 and included surgical kits, exam tables, hospital beds and gurneys.
This project will biuld on the success of VIDA's earlier efforts that shipped over $10 million in aid as a result of the devestating earthquake in 2012. This donation will be targeting impoverished orphanges and schools who offer the most efficent channel of distrubtion to a large number of beneficiaries.
VIDA and FEDES are planning another shipment of medical supplies in March 2016.
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