Posts by Laura Kelly
Hospital Bed Donation Provides Comfort & Rest
Getting through the day is not easy for 36-year-old Marvin Wilson who is bedridden from motor neuropathy. The condition, which causes progressive muscle weakness, makes completing everyday tasks difficult. While motor neuropathy cannot be cured, medications and IV treatments have proven to be helpful for managing patients’ symptoms. Access to these medical treatments and therapies…
Read MoreMedical Supplies Support Hospital In Grenada
A recent Brother’s Brother Foundation shipment provided St. George’s General Hospital in Grenada with 15 pallets of requested medical supplies and medical equipment. The hospital serves the country island’s entire population of 113,000 people. Grenada’s economy relies heavily on tourism and other service industries. When the pandemic put traveling on hiatus, the country took a…
Read MoreRelief Work Continues Months After Earthquake
Hundreds of displaced families in Southern Turkey received boxes of food and hygiene supplies in an on-the-ground response led by Brother’s Brother Foundation and Life for Relief and Development (LIFE). Three months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Northern Syria, the region remains devastated. An estimated 1.4 million Turks are living in informal settlements…
Read MoreA Gentler Method For Pediatric Surgeries In Ukraine
While many in Ukraine have left their jobs to fight on their country’s frontlines, physicians and surgeons who have stayed behind are left to fight another kind of battle—emergency rooms that are flooded with victims suffering from shrapnel wounds and lost limbs. Unfortunately, those arriving include children. The Children’s Hospital in Dnipro treats most of…
Read MoreA Battle On A Different Front
Staff at the National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine, watched as forklifts unloaded large wooden shipping crates from two semi-trailer trucks that arrived from Poland. The boxes, some of which are taller than most people, contain pieces to a linear accelerator (LINAC) which, when assembled, will deliver precise radiation treatments to cancer patients—the first step…
Read MoreWorking For A Healthier Guatemala
When a BBF shipment with the drug Metformin arrived in Villa Canales, Guatemala, a herd of people gathered outside For a Better Life social service agency. Used to treat Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes, Metformin is difficult for many patients in Guatemala to access. Diabetes is the third leading cause of death in Guatemala, an…
Read MorePharma Program At Work In Guatemala
Doña Eulogia Barrillas might not be alive if not for a neighbor who took her to the hospital. Barrillas, an elderly woman, was living alone in rural Guatemala and in extreme party when she started to feel ill. She knew something was wrong. Lab results and assessments from healthcare workers at Hospital Regional de Cuilapa…
Read MoreReaching Water, Growing Corn
Most families in rural Zambia make a living by farming, yet an estimated 42% of them do not have access to clean water. From a health standpoint, there are clear consequences —diarrheal diseases, many of which are caused from waterborne illness, are among the country’s leading causes of death. Zoom out, though, and other repercussions…
Read MoreShipment Supplies Medical Brigades In El Salvador
Fundación Una Mano Amiga (FUMA) distributed pharmaceuticals to 15 medical organizations in El Salvador, following the arrival of a 20-foot container shipment from Brother’s Brother Foundation. El Salvador’s low doctor-to-patient ratio limits the population’s access to medical care and medicine, especially for people who live in rural regions where medical facilities are almost nonexistent. To…
Read MoreBrother’s Brother Foundation (BBF) Responds To Tornadoes In Southern & Midwestern States
BBF is responding to the widespread destruction and devastating loss of life caused by multiple tornadoes over the past weekend by initially providing grants to the Arkansas Food Bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Mid-South Food Bank in Memphis, Tennessee. The Arkansas Food Bank works with 450 local partner agencies in a 33-county service…
Read MoreBrother’s Brother Foundation Responds To Tornadoes In Mississippi
Brother’s Brother Foundation (BBF) is responding to the widespread destruction and devastating loss of life caused by multiple tornadoes in Mississippi, impacting rural towns including Silver City, Rolling Fork, Winona, and Amory. BBF is ready to send truckloads of water, hygiene kits, and tarps, and provide grants to foodbanks in the area as part of…
Read MoreBBF Addresses Turkey’s Homeless Crisis With Container Homes
It has been six weeks since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey destroyed more than 200,000 buildings and took nearly 50,000 lives. In the time since, millions of people who survived have not had much rest.The United Nations Development Program estimates that 1.5 million people in Turkey are homeless. With nowhere else to go, people…
Read MoreFrom Our President: Responding To Turkey & Northern Syria
Six days after the catastrophic event, the loss of life from the earthquake and aftershocks impacting Turkey and northern Syria, has risen to over 34,000 casualties. For your stewards at BBF, watching pictures of an almost incomprehensible level of death, injury, damage, and destruction, made it critical for us to respond as quickly and effectively…
Read MoreGlobal Relief Quarterly
Welcome to the BBF Global Relief Quarterly. Telling the stories that inspire the best in all of us. Last summer while discussing the content for the fall newsletter, we had so many ideas for stories we quickly concluded it was time to expand! Over the next several months, we talked about how to develop a…
Read MoreFocus On Pharma
The excerpt below is from a report provided to BBF by Cross International regarding a BBF pharma container donation that went to the Dominican Republic. It helps visualize the impact that the pharma donation program is making on the lives of underserved community members. The medicines were distributed to eight health centers, one community outreach…
Read MoreTogether In Health
Brother’s Brother Foundation donated medicines to Manak Community Health Organization (MaCHO) last fall for a medical mission trip to Sierra Leone. The clinic saw nearly 500 patients from 84 different villages over a span of two weeks. “Seeing the outcomes that you have and the impact that you have with just a single organization–it’s empowering,…
Read MoreA Fresh Start In Ghana
Women and children in the village of Wuxor danced to hand drums and maracas as they took turns drinking water from small plastic pitchers. In January, Brother’s Brother Foundation funded a borehole to provide clean water to the 1,000-person village.
A sip of clean water in rural Ghana leads to a community- wide celebration.
Last year, women and children walked one-third of a mile away to collect dirty water they carried back to their village in buckets balanced on their heads. This year, children and grandparents tasted clean water for the first time in their lives.
“We’ve been through a lot of suffering, walking through thick bushes with many dangers all in search of water, just as our forefathers did even before us….
Read MoreEarthquake Relief
Working with extensive networks of local resources and teams within Syria, BBF and Life for Relief and Development coordinated a large response without having to cross the Syrian border. As a result, BBF was able to provide victims with critical resources during the time it took for other humanitarian aid to arrive. Nearly 9 million…
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