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23 Apr 2005
5k Run/Walk held at 10 A.M., Swinney Outdoor Track; $897.00 raised
for H.O.P.E. |
Mar 2005
$1020.55 raised for the victims and survivors of the Indian Ocean
tsunami. See
www.globemed.org
for details on donation by PayPal. |
Jan 2005
Successful shipments to Grenada, W.I. and Phebe Hospital, Liberia. |
16 Sep 2004
Successful first shipment of 150 health kits to the Maison de
Naissance, Haiti.
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15 Sep 2004
We resolve to help the victims of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada, West
Indies. |
Aug 2004
We commit to consistently raise funds and equipment for the Maison
de Naissance, a birthing home in Haiti.
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July 2004
We commit to raise equipment to the recently ransacked Phebe
Hospital in Liberia. |
13 Jun 2004
Official CSO recognition by GlobeMed, NFP.
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globemed@umkc.edu
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Grenada, West Indies (Hurricane Ivan victim)
On September 7 of 2004, the
Caribbean island of Grenada was hit by its worst hurricane in
nearly a decade. Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 hurricane with
winds up to 140 miles per hour, would ravage Jamaica, Cuba, and
the Southern coastline of the U.S. only hours later. Meanwhile,
it killed at least thirty four on this island, damaged 90
percent of its homes, and destroyed a prison, leaving criminals
loose. In St. George’s, the capital, looters pillaged through
clinics, hospitals, businesses, and the local St. George’s
University. Virtually every major building in the city suffered
structural damage.
“We are terribly devastated… It’s beyond imagination,” Prime
Minister Keith Mitchell told his people and the world from
aboard a British Royal Navy vessel that rushed to the rescue.
St. George’s University’s mostly American student body was
arming with knives, sticks and pepper spray for fear that
looters would move into areas near the school. “We don’t feel
safe,” reported one student.
Grenada’s Police Commissioner Roy Beddau said that every police
station in the country had been damaged, hindering efforts to
control the looting. It was confirmed that an unknown number of
criminals were on the loose after the country’s crumbling and
overcrowded 17th century prison was “completely devastated.”
GlobeMed of UMKC committed to the relief effort of Grenada in
light of the raiding of their health care facilities. We have
helped to raise their requested items of antibacterial creams,
antifungal creams, hydrocortisone creams, bandaging and wound
care materials, antibiotics, and pediatric medications.
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