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From Our President Ozzy Samad

September 19, 2024|
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Highlights from an Impactful Quarter

In the second quarter of 2024, your generosity allowed BBF to respond to tornados in Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Texas, the wars in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza, and support The Ponce Medical School Foundation with hurricane preparedness efforts in Puerto Rico.  This followed BBF’s work to assist those impacted by Cyclone Michaung in Chennai, India, by providing water filtration equipment, support to provide counseling sessions for breast cancer patients in rural Georgia and heart surgeries for children in Nigeria, and our continued support to help address the mental health challenges brought about by the wildfires in Maui.  BBF’s response to the tornadoes in the mid-west and southern regions of the country included providing grants to local food banks to support ongoing efforts to assist those who were severely impacted by the devastation. Our response to the war in Ukraine continues along with ongoing efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. 

To help address the needs of patients in underserved countries, BBF provided over 43 million doses of pharmaceuticals, along with supplies and medical equipment to in-country partners in the second quarter. This included sending the equivalent of 20 container shipments to partners in Cote d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, USA, and Zambia. These shipments were preceded by BBF sending 104 million doses of pharmaceuticals in the first quarter of 2024 in over 28 container shipments. We also provided medicines to physician-led teams providing healthcare services on med-surg trips to Bolivia, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

43
MILLION DOSES
of medications sent in the second quarter of 2024

BBF’s solar efforts continue in collaboration with Hope for Ghana (HFG) to install a 10kW solar power system for a school in Klopke, along with funding the installation of a computer lab and library in the Wlitey RC school, located in the Volta Region of Ghana. Our work with Pickering Energy Solutions focuses on providing and maintaining solar installations in hospitals and clinics throughout Liberia, with eighty-seven currently in operation. In collaboration with the Eden Hall Foundation, BBF continues to oversee the construction of St. Andrew’s Secondary Boys School in Mulanje, Malawi. This is a two-year project with an expected completion date of September 2025. We also sent nine containers of books and education supplies to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and the Philippines.  

Locally, BBF provided laptops, tablets, smartphones, and accessories to our partner Community Forge that will be utilized in digital education programs by members of the Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg communities, funding to Allen Place Community Services so three healthcare workers from our underserved communities can attend of the Magee-Womens Summit, and are in the final planning phases of our audiology mobile health clinic.  

As always, our efforts are made possible by your generous support – thank you from the bottom of our hearts! 

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