Shipping Humanitarian Aid – A Solution in Times of Disasters

Cyclone Nargis, washed over Myanmar on May 2, 2008 leaving more than 134,000 people dead or missing. Global Aid Network worked quickly and diligently to gain access and to assess the damage. Our leading disaster specialist was able to train more than 300 Christian volunteers who are helping to reach out with compassionate care, providing aid assistance and hope for survivors of the destructive storm.

Additionally, Global Aid Network provided truckloads of emergency aid to affected areas and assisted in installing seven gravity-based water filtration systems. As a part of the developmental effort, Global Aid Network is helping to construct homes for survivors who lost everything and to rebuild six schools as many children are still studying in makeshift classrooms and using their seats as desks. Two schools have been completed and a third is near completion.

Global Aid Network has been blessed to receive an abundance of life-saving compassionate aid at our Pennsylvania Distribution Center as well as through donor partners. We thank God for each contributor, and for the opportunity to present these gifts in the name of Christ to a lost and dying world and in disaster situations that occur every year. The challenge facing us today is the need for funding to ship the aid to many places worldwide. Think of it this way: humanitarian aid has been generously donated, systems are in place to ensure the aid gets to the right person, and volunteers have answered the call of the Great Commission to deliver it to them. But one crucial thing must take place – the aid must be shipped overseas and that requires funding.

Because of the tremendous advantage available to us through economy of scale, the cost for shipment averages out extremely low for each individual item. For example, each $1.50 from you for shipping could put a pair of shoes on the feet of an orphaned child currently without shoes in Central Asia. And $3.00 can provide a warm jacket to a child facing a harsh winter. This means each $1 you give to this critical shipping need on average is multiplied to approximately $27 in actual aid delivered! Would you help?