SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS & SMITHFIELD, UTAH
Founded in 2004 with the goal to serve the underserved, Community Dental Center in Smithfield, Utah, quickly became known in the community as “The Medicaid” office. They take pride in being known as the office that serves the underserved. They have also taken efforts to structure their business in a way that allows a very high standard of care and cleanliness, all while serving the community.
Community Dental Center has been able to live up to their name by reaching out to organizations in the local community and abroad by donating services and materials for their individual causes. Annually hygiene kits are put together for the local food pantry. Once or twice a year they organize and deliver hygiene kits to the local CAPSA (Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse) chapter as well. These donations are much needed and very well received. Without the relationship with Globus Relief, each of these would be too expensive an endeavor to do on the scale and frequency in which they provide it.
Dr. Webber has also started a relationship with an organization called OLAAT (One Life At A Time) which is aiming to reduce the cycle of poverty in Central American countries. He was able to donate his time and services last year in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for a week. During one week 30 teenagers, many of which had never seen a dentist before, received dental treatment. This clinic, in desperate need, was supplemented with supplies donated by Dr. Webber. He hopes to make this trip every year, continuing to donate his time, services and supplies to the clinic.
In the words of Kaci, of Community Dental Center, “Our relationship with Globus has blessed so many lives in our community. Through this relationship we have been able to expand our reach of service to so many more lives than would otherwise be possible. We look forward to many more years of service to thos who truly need it, and cannot envision that without our relationship with Globus Relief and their donors.”
Globus Relief
Globus Relief was founded in 1996. While working in the salvage retail industry, two Salt Lake City businessmen were saddened to see viable medical and hygiene supplies frequently sent to landfills. Certain that these surplus resources could be rescued and put to good use, they created Globus Relief to efficiently channel overstocked, gently used, or short-dated supplies to humanitarian projects in Utah and around the world.
Since our founding, Globus Relief has distributed over $1 billion (fair market value) of supplies to more than 800 charities at work in over 140 countries. Twenty full-time employees oversee the work of gathering, processing, and distributing humanitarian supplies in our 100,000-s.f. warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Volunteers contribute an average of 225 labor hours per week, the equivalent of 5.6 additional full-time employees.
Globus Relief is known for strong financial efficiency, historically keeping administrative and fundraising expenses to under 3% of our total budget.
