Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico
| BY THE NUMBERS | JUN | YTD |
| Countries served | 10 | 30 |
| Orders shipped | 79 | 438 |
| Charity partners | 44 | 126 |
| Product sent ($M) | 2.9 | 29.6 |
OUR MISSION To improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
The Mexican town of Agua Prieta lies along the US-Mexican border, adjacent to Douglas, Arizona. It had its founding in the railroad industry, transporting minerals from its home state of Sonora across the border to Arizona. While the city has impressive metrics in many areas – a 96% literacy rate, 89% of homes have electricity, etc. – a few others have remained behind the curve. One of these is emergency response. For years, emergency response to auto accidents consisted of first responders arriving by private car onto the scene. Unable to give full medical care from their car, some unnecessarily died. The Red Cross eventually took over responsibility for emergency response but remained unequipped, lacking ambulances and other life-saving tools.
The Logan Rotary Club of Utah responded to this need by acquiring, equipping and donating ambulances to Agua Prieta. The most recent of these was just earlier this year. Using an ambulance donated by the Smithfield, Utah fire department, the Rotary Club went to work. $2000 bought new tires and gasoline. With the remaining funds, the Rotary Club approached Globus Relief for the medical products to best equip the ambulance for its future mission. Luckly for them, their Globus contact, LaRae Thorpe, knew just what to do. As a long-time emergency medicine educator, LaRae expertly guided them to the best products to outfit the ambulance at the lowest cost.
The ambulance supplied, the Logan Rotary Club drove it to Douglas, where they delivered it into the hands of Manny, a Douglas, Arizona firefighter of Mexican origins. He transferred it to Agua Prieta, where it will be used to save lives for years to come. Globus Relief is proud to partner with the Logan Rotary Club and Douglas fire department to respond to the call
to make life-saving equipment accessible to all.
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.
