Countries Served in 2015 BBF VP Liam Carstens in Liberia and

BBF VP Liam Carstens in
Liberia and Sierra Leone
In November 2015, BBF Vice President of Medical Programs and Strategic Initiatives Liam Carstens
traveled to Sierra Leone and Liberia to visit with BBF partners in these west African nations, Mr. Carstens toured
hospitals, clinics and orphanages that received support and donations from BBF. In Sierra Leone, BBF works with
Dr. Karen Asher and her organization, West African Education and Medical Mission, as well as with the Christian
Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL) and Caritas Sierra Leone. BBF and Healey International Relief
Foundation recently sent manual hospital beds and mattresses, which were well received. BBF and CHASL
worked together during the Ebola outbreak. BBF sent protective gloves and cleaning materials in addition to
other medical supplies and equipment to facilities treating patients with Ebola.
In Liberia, Mr. Carstens revisited several
institutions that receive direct donations from BBF
including Phebe Hospital, Redemption Hospital, Ganta
Hospital, and several clinics and health centers. Mr.
Carstens met with Dr. Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health
for the Republic of Liberia, who asked BBF to continue
to send manual hospital beds like the ones that had
recently arrived from Pittsburgh. In addition, Mr.
Carstens visited an orphanage, a school for respiratory
therapists and several clinics that have received solar
panels and electrical systems. BBF is expanding its
support of these types of projects in Liberia.
Liam Carstens, BBF Vice President of Medical Programs and
Strategic Initiatives, meets with Dr. Bernice Dahn, Minister of
Health for the Republic of Liberia. Mr. Carstens and Dr. Dahn met
to discuss recent donations from BBF to the Ministry of Health and
future possibilities.
Inside
President’s
Report
2
Thank You
Donors
3-4
Mission Trip
Reports
5
Global Problems
Global Solutions
6
BBF Officers
Board Chair
Charles J. Stout*
Vice Chair
Phillip D. Jones*
Treasurer
Joseph T. Senko*
Secretary
Austin P. Henry, Esq.*
Medical Director
Deborah K. McMahon, M.D.
President
Luke L. Hingson
*also a trustee
Other BBF Trustees
Ebola screening tent at Phebe Hospital, Liberia. Phebe
Hospital is a longstanding partner of BBF that was devastated
by the Ebola outbreak.
Linda Kharkei and Maima Blamo stand near a birthing table that
BBF recently donated to Ganta Hospital in Liberia. BBF purchased
this table brand new and sent it to Ganta Hospital with other
requested pieces of medical supplies and equipment as part of
BBF’s African Medical Initiative.
A proud father holds one of the smallest patients at
Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.
Nursing staff of United Methodist Church, Kissy General Hospital in
Freetown, Sierra Leone, stand near a birthing table that Brother’s
Brother Foundation recently purchased and donated to the hospital.
Africa Fundamental Baptist Mission, Gbarnga, Liberia. This
health center received a solar power system that allowed it to
provide services to expecting mothers 24 hours a day. In 2015
BBF funded an expansion of this solar power system.
Countries Served in 2015
In 2015, BBF shipped requested supplies to 63 countries including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize,
Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia,
Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia,
Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Panama, Peru, Philippines, St. Vincent’s Island, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan,
Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, United States
of America, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Barry Byer, M.D.
Daniel R. Delaney, Esq.
Roy G. Dorrance, III
Garry L. Garrison
Amy R. Hammer
Joseph E. Imbrigia, M.D.
Graham F. Johnstone, M.D.
Cynthia Kilgore
Macrina C. Lelei
Chronis H. Manolis
Richard L. McGough, III, M.D.
Gordon B. Moore
Les H. Pitton, Jr.
John D. Reba
David M. Swan, M.D.
Lilla O. Swan
William M. Swartz, M.D.
Louann Tronsberg-Deihle
John Tymitz
John C. Unkovic, Esq.
Robert S. Verscharen
BBF Staff
Luke Hingson
Qaadir Anderson
Thaddeus Adkins
Debbie Baucom
Erin Belitskus
Sarah Boal
Liam Carstens
William Davis
Karen Dempsey
Donna Engelhardt
Ryan Gindlesperger
Richard Goddard
Antonella Ferraro
David Holdsworth
Ryan Kondrot
Velimir Letoja
Kevin Meszaros
Robert Miller
Frank Seanez
William Shaffer
Valorie Sherman
Dinita Thomas
Phone: 412-321-3160
Fax: 412-321-3325
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BBF-NCA 2015 Report
President’s Report
by Luke Hingson
In 2015, product contributions totaled $232,441,234 and
product shipments totaled $251,633,002. Direct shipments and
mission trip support went to people in need in 63 countries.
Incoming medical donations for the year were valued at
$213,667,116, which includes 3,432,999 bottles and tubes of
medicine. Medical containers sent to countries in need during
the year totaled 159. BBF’s Education Program sent 40 shipping
containers holding more than 596 tons in 2015.
The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of BBF
took place on January 19th with the following individuals elected
as officers: Board Chair, Charles Stout; Vice Chair, Phil Jones;
Secretary, Austin Henry; Treasurer, Joe Senko; Medical Director,
Deborah McMahon; and President, Luke Hingson.
The following Advisory Board members were elected to
the Voting Board: Austin Henry, Phillip Jones, Chronis Manolis,
Joseph
Senko,
David Swan and
William
Swartz.
Also, the following
new
Trustees
were elected to
the Voting Board:
Joseph
Imbriglia,
M.D., Lilla Swan
and John Unkovic.
Finally,
Jordan
Feucht joined BBF’s
BBF Officers Secretary Austin Henry, Vice Chair Phillip Advisory Board as a
Jones and BBF Board Chair Charles Stout
new member.
BBF and the Rotary Club
of Apia Bring Textbooks
to Samoa
BBF, working with the Rotary Club of Apia and the U.S.
Embassy of Samoa, sent a shipping container filled with 416
cases of textbooks and other educational supplies.
This shipment has been received and the U.S. Ambassador
to Samoa Mark Gilbert took part in the distribution. Some of the
recipient schools have not had new textbooks in 50 years!
Hand Carry Donations
Brothers Brother Foundation National Capital Area
(BBF-NCA) provided supplies for 282 medical mission trips in
2015. This compares with three trips in 2013 and 103 in 2014.
Thirty were sent in December 2015. Materials sent to BBFNCA hand carry partners served over 164,000 people in 44
countries. Haiti (51), Honduras (48), Ukraine (24), Guatemala
(24) and Dominican Republic (22) were the countries with the
greatest number of mission trips in 2015. BBF-NCA supported
over 190 different mission trip partners with the top three being
Global Medical Brigades (36), U.S. Ukraine Foundation (21) and
International Medical Relief (10).
Container Shipments
In 2015, BBF-NCA sent 31 medical shipments by
container or partial container to 10 different countries. Haiti
(4), Sierra Leone (4), Ukraine () and Jamaica (2) were the top
recipients. Food for the Poor, Adventist Relief and Development
and the US Ukraine Foundation were the top partners with BBF
in these shipments.
In December, BBF-NCA shipped a 40-foot container to
Laurel Memorial Hospital in Batangas, Philippines, in partnership
with the Philippines American Medical Society.
2015 included sending BBF’s Pittsburgh warehouse
200 pallets and pallet equivalents of medical supplies and
equipment from BBF-NCA for distribution worldwide. Twenty-six
of these arrived in
December 2015.
Medical Materials
Collection
Individual
donations to BBFNCA in 2015
total 452 with
40 arriving in
December.
Total weight of BBF-NCA staff member Dinita Thomas and one the many
groups of volunteers at BBF-NCA
donations in 2015
was approximately 351,000 pounds, including estimates for January
through April and actual weight from June through December. This
compares to estimated weights of 78,000 in 2013 and 223,000
in 2014. In December 2015, 61,728 pounds were received, with
Owens and Minor Hanover the top donor of 16,062 pounds.
Joerns, Geisinger Health, Owens and Minor Hanover,
UMMC and Synergy Health were the top five 2015 donors to
BBF-NCA by weight. New donors include Carilion, the Franciscan
Mission, Geisinger Health, Gleaning for the World, Joerns,
Medstar Southern Maryland, Prince William Hospital and St.
Luke’s Hospital.
2016 Goals and Objectives for BBF-NCA
1. 2.
3.
4.
5.
Increase gift-in-kind donations from 452 in 2015 to
500 in 2016.
Receive 400,000 pounds of donations in 2016 compared
to 351,562 in 2015.
Support 350 hand carry missions versus 282 in 2015.
Ship 35 containers of medical supplies and equipment
from BBF-NCA
Continue to expand the BBF-NCA donor base by
identifying new donors and expanding the number of
hospitals and health systems.
BBF’s Work with Global Brigades
Since 2009, BBF and Global Brigades, through BBF’s medical mission trip program,
partnered to bring needed medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to individuals and communities
worldwide. Global Brigades provides an opportunity for university students to use their skills
and to volunteer abroad to help those most in need.
In 2015, BBF provided pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to 25 university
medical brigades serving individuals and communities in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
University trips included brigades from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University,
the University of Maryland, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University and the University
of California at Davis and at Riverside. Over $102,000 of necessary medical supplies and
pharmaceuticals from BBF supported the amazing efforts of these Global Brigades.
The University of California at Davis chapter
of the Global Medical Brigades at work in
Honduras
BBF’s Mission Trip Program in 2015
In 2015, BBF supplied more than 350 mission trips to 49 countries.
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Carolina Honduras Health Foundation
Medical Mission Trip to Honduras
We just returned from another great trip to our medical clinic
in Limon, Honduras and once again, I cannot thank BBF for all the
wonderful free medications and supplies that you provided my team
with for this trip.
We saw patients from the villages of Limon, Icoteas, Francia,
Plan de Flores and Chapagua. For some first time team members it
is a shock to their systems that there is no internet in these remote
areas, but then they see a mother, with a little packet of rice and beans
that she brought from home, feeding her children so they would not
be hungry while they wait patiently for hours to see a doctor. And this
same mother will thank someone who gives her all the medications
needed to treat her sick children at no cost to her. Little does she know
that some wonderful people with BBF in PA donated some of those
drugs that will make her children better. A big, “Mucho Gracias!” from
our patients in Honduras.
Chris Zawacki
Team Leader/Board Member
Carolina Honduras Health Foundation
(During this trip, Carolina Honduras Health Foundation (CHHF)
treated 500+ with the help of basic medical supplies and 450+ bottles
of medicine donated by BBF. This was the 42nd CHHF mission trip
that BBF has supported since 2008 and the 59th Honduras-bound
medical mission trip in 2015.)
In 2015, BBF supported a medical mission trip Project
Helping Hands to Cambodia with 469 bottles of medication.
The team offered vision and basic medical care as well as
public health education at clinics in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap
and several nearby rural villages. This was one of four medical
missions to Cambodia that BBF supported in 2015.
In 2015, BBF Supported Circle of Hope International’s
medical mission trip to Malawi with 439 bottles of pharmaceuticals.
With this support, the team served 756 people at the Grace Center
clinic in Katengeza Village while offering public health education
as well as training for local health professionals. This was one of
five BBF-supported medical mission efforts in Malawi in 2015.
Pennsville Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant, PA
Medical Mission Trip to Panama
A group of 20 members from Pennsville Baptist Church, Mt.
Pleasant, PA, traveled to four villages outside of Panama City,
Panama. We were struck by the difference in economic class of
the people we encountered. Panama City is a modern city like
many in America. McDonalds & KFC were readily available. We
traveled 1-2 hours outside of the city to villages of indigenous
tribes and they didn’t have electricity.
A dugout canoe was our mode of transportation down the
Chagres River to reach a group from the Embera Tribe. In addition
to medical care, we were able to provide toothbrushes, toothpaste,
and vitamins to everyone we saw and had personal hygiene kits
to distribute at another village where the people of the Woanam
Tribe lived. This village also required a boat ride through a marsh
to get to the people.
In four days of clinic, we were able to see 431 patients and fill
1023 prescriptions. Many of the children were seen at a school
called Nuevo Paraiso. The children walked two hours one-way
to get to the school and the teachers lived at the school through the week, only going home on weekends because of the
distance they live from the school. We were also asked to make several house calls for patients who couldn’t come to us.
The homes had little to no furniture and we often found just blankets on the floors.
We treated patients with hypertension, diabetes, skin conditions, as well as infections that required antibiotics or
anthelmintics. Trips like these humble us in what we have available to us compared to what is available in the rest of the
world. Thank you for helping make this trip possible. Without your donations, we would not have been able to take all of the
medications and supplies that we needed.
Thank you,
Amy Kriss
(In support of this medical mission trip, BBF supplied 150 lbs. of supplies and 157 bottles of medicine. This is one of six Panama-
bound medical mission teams BBF supported in 2015.)
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BBF Board Members Work in
Niger and Zimbabwe
BBF Trustee Dr.
Graham Johnstone, working
with
Medical
Teams
International, volunteered
at Galmi Hospital in Niger.
The team arrived offering
their considerable medical
expertise as well as 190
bottles of BBF-donated
medicines and several
boxes of sutures that will
assist with operations at the
facility.
BBF Trustee Dr. Graham Johnstone in Niger
BBF, working with BBF Advisory Trustee Drew Harvey and The Nyadire
Connection of the United Methodist Church,
loaded a shipping container with pallets
of medical supplies, rolls of vinyl, medical
equipment, 27 manual hospital beds and two
medical utility vehicles that were distributed
to several medical facilities connected to the
Nyadire Hospital in Zimbabwe. BBF and The
Nyadire Connection have worked together
since 2009, sending five shipments in 2015
with the latest serving Nyahuku Clinic.
BBF Advisory Trustee Drew Harvey in Zimbabwe
A Pathway to
Environmental Stability
April 21 and April 22, 2016
LaRoche College
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International Recognition
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with 100% fundraising
efficiency and charitable
commitment for nearly a
decade.
BBF is a member of
Interaction.
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H.J. Heinz Retired Volunteers
Allegra Print & Imaging, Pittsburgh
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