Shipping Campaign

In 2011, GHM will be making 22 shipments of medical supplies and equipment to Lutheran hospitals in nine countries. These donated articles are of immeasurable assistance to Lutheran health care programs overseas, often making the difference between continuing or closing. GHM's goal for 2011 is to raise $180,000 for the shipping program. Project 99-S0000 Shipping.

GHM volunteers will gather, sort, repair, catalog, pack and ship items ranging from needles, syringes and bandages to incubators, computers, ultra sound and operating tables as donations to 24 hospitals. The cost of sending one 8 by 8 by 20 foot container is approximately $12,000. Over 100 suitcases filled with medical supplies for mission teams will be packed as well!

ELCA synods are encouraged to adopt a shipment to your companion church as part of your global mission commitment.You will find a shipping project number under most countries or you may use 99-S0000 Shipping costs "where needed." The shipments and suitcases cannot go out without your help!

Country/Hospital Specific Shipments

• 09-S0000 Cameroon: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $45,000
• 10EM-S0000 Central African Republic: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment to the new Gallo health center. $16,000
• 18AI-P0001 Ethiopia - Aira Hospital: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment and general operations. An important initiative to fully refurbish a critically important mission hospital in a remote and poor region of west central Ethiopia. $20,000
• 32BE-P0001 India: Bethesda Hospital: Shipping supplies and equipment. $9,500
• 46-S0000 Liberia: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment to Phebe Hospital & School of Nursing and Curran Lutheran Hospital. $16,000
• 48-S0000 Madagascar: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $17,000
• 57-S0000 Nigeria: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $17,000
• 60EL-S0000 Papua New Guinea. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment to ELC-PNG hospitals and dispensaries. $12,000
• 60IM-P0001 Papau New Guinea: Immanuel Lutheran (LCMS mission) Hospital Shipping. $13,700
• 79BL-P0001 Tanzania: Bulongwa Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79BU-P0001 Tanzania: Bumbuli Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79DO-P0001 Tanzania: Dodoma. A multi-year hospital development project currently supporting shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79PE-P0001 Tanzania: Pare Diocese Health Care. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79HA-P0001 Tanzania: Haydom Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79IA-P0001 Tanzania: Iambi Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79IL-P0001 Tanzania: Ilembula Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79IU-P0001 Tanzania: Ilula Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equip-ment. $16,500
• 79LU-P0001 Tanzania: Lugala Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79MA-P0001 Tanzania: Machame Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79ND-P0001 Tanzania: Ndolage Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $17,500
• 79NK-P0001 Tanzania: Nkoaranga Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $16,500
• 79AL-S0000 Tanzania: Arusha Lutheran Medical Center and Selian Hospital. Shipping of medical supplies/equipment. $45,000
• 88-S0000 Zimbabwe Shipping. Responding to a desperate appeal from Lutheran hospitals in this troubled country, two shipments of medical supplies and equipment. $45,000