A shipment of medical supplies from Catholic World Mission was accepted at the Customs office in San Pedro on September 3, 2015. The shipment contained clothing, medical supplies, and medication for 10 hospitals and healthcare centers in Honduras. These 10 organizations serve a population of 99,000 people! The hospitals and healthcare centers serve people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women, and children daily, and have healthcare programs to serve HIV patients as well. They conduct free clinics in more rural areas that are without access to the resources necessary to make frequent hospital trips.

One of the largest hospitals is the Centro de Salud Dr. Jeronimo Sazo Alceroo San Jose in Santa Barbara; it serves 2,236 people a month! The hospital has benefitted tremendously from the shipments of medical supplies. By providing the healthcare the people so desperately need, the shipments also help strengthen the community. Centro de Salud is located in a region of low-income families who benefit the most from this kind of shipment. The hospital has a staff of only 24 people! Their dedication to the people of Santa Barbara, Honduras is unmatched. Altogether, the 10 hospitals and healthcare centers were so grateful to accept the 495 t-shirts, 3.89 tons of medical supplies, and especially the antidepressant medication to support the mental health of the suffering community.

In 2015 we shipped to Guatemala! This container of medical supplies benefited two organizations: the Fundacion Pediatrica de Guatemala and Clinicas Elim Chimaltenango. These organizations regularly offer free clinics, and therefore do not receive any payment in return. Both facilities rely solely on shipments from organizations like Catholic World Mission to serve the poor. Fundacion Pediatrica de Guatemala offers four free clinics in different regions of the country every year. Clinicas Elim Chimaltenango is able to offer a free clinic daily out of their center – seeing approximately 100 people every day! In addition to having doctors come in to do consulting to determine if patients need more care at a specialty center, they also offer eye and dental care. These professionals drive 32 miles away from the city of Guatemala to provide their services to the poor for free on a daily basis.

3 hospitals receive lifesaving medicines thanks to shipping to the
Dominican Republic

Thanks to your incredible generosity, three hospitals in Dominican Republic received $5,000,000 worth of medicines and medical supplies.

Moscoso Puello Hospital

This public hospital in Santo Domingo saw over 70,000 patients last year alone. They provide lifesaving necessities to the poor free of charge, including pharmaceuticals. This is possible only because of the generosity of friends like you. When the hospital receives donations, they don’t have to charge their impoverished patients.

Good Samaritan Hospital

Located in La Romana, two hours from the capital, Good Samaritan Hospital uses the funds from its paying patients to provide for the poor patients from sugarcane fields.

We simply could not attend to so many people and provide free pharmaceuticals to so many people in the sugarcane fields without the continued generosity of the donors. For the hospital, these donations are pivotal in helping us to assist more than 90,000 patients every year.

-Moises Sifren, Executive Director of Good Samaritan Hospital

Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital

Opened in 1956, this hospital covers most of the pediatric specialties. They see over 25,000 patients every year. Donated pharmaceuticals are crucial to the hospital’s ability to provide treatment to patients whose families can’t afford medicines themselves.

Please don’t delay. Your gift will only deliver hope faster.

Since 2004 we have had the incredible opportunity to ship lifesaving medical supplies, disaster relief needs, and building materials. With your help, we have continued this mission to help people internationally, who do not otherwise have the resources.