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BEFORE
AND AFTER:
Above,
volunteers help load a shipment of supplies and toys
bound for the Dominican Republic.
Below,
the container has arrived, and children at a local
Orphanage can't get enough of their new swing set!
(Donated by WalMart in Chico, CA).
Project S.A.V.E.
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Making a Difference - About Project S.A.V.E.
Chico, California-based
Project S.A.V.E. (Salvage All Valuable Equipment) recycles medical
and dental equipment and supplies received from
professional organizations, clinics, hospitals and individuals,
which are then shipped to hospitals and clinics
in need around the world.
The organization was founded
in 1996
by Dr. Phyllis Cullen, and has been directed since 2004
by Chico resident
Janice Walker. The staff are all
unpaid volunteers. Shipping costs are paid with
tax deductible donations.
The latest
stories from
Project S.A.V.E.
Update:
Number of countries we have shipped to, and number of
20-ft containers of medical and dental supplies and
equipment we have inventoried, loaded and shipped around
the world!
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Countries |
20-ft.
Containers |
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39 |
78 |
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 January
25, 2012:
Greetings to All, I wanted to
send this floor plan and photo
so you-all can have a "visual"
of the Nigeria destination we
have been packing for! How
exciting to see the building
coming along so nicely! As you
will see in the email below,
James cannot meet the container
until June, so I will try to
secure the shipping date of
March 17th. We will just have to
have patience as I know the
shipment will be ready to leave
within a week or two!
Read more.
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December 11, 2011: I
received
photos today from Dr. Marath, Founder & Pesident of
CardioStart. He is currently in Kurdistan, planning a
mission there which will utilize the heart/lung machine
donated by Enloe Medical Center and shipped along with a
40-ft. container of medical supplies and equipment to
Kurdistan. Read
more.
 November
20, 2011:
Volunteers from Project SAVE have started a great new
endeavor of packing gift bags for new babies and
surgical patients to send along with our overseas
shipments. Maxine Rodgers volunteered to put together
bags for adults, and Raedene Rogers gathers supplies for
the little ones. Already these bags have been used by
Cardiostart in mission trips to Peru and Vietnam. Boxes
of these gift bags have been included in containers to
New Guinea, Philippines, Belize, Vietnam, Nigeria, and
Uganda. It is a personal touch for needy patients
including: toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, new wash
cloths, brush, comb, lotions and razors in the male
packets.
Pictured, left to right, are
volunteers Raedene Rogers, Linda George, Susie McCoy, &
Maxine Rodgers. Second photo: Maxine Rogers with adult
gift boxes and items.
 November
15th, 2011:
We
were delighted to have visitors this week at Project
SAVE. Zack Smith and Kirtus Creiglow came to gather
supplies for their upcoming trip to Sudan, Central
Republic of Africa and Dufour. They will be traveling
with Dr. Glenn Geelhoed on his "Mission To Heal". We
were able to share many surgical items as well as goods
for basic wound care.
Pictured: Zack Smith,
Janice Walker, Lorna Langlois, Ed Matzdorf, Karen
Starkey, Patty Walker, Raedene Rodger, Duaine Rogers,
Kirtus Creiglow, Jessica Enciso. Also assisting was a
new volunteer and surgical nurse, Leon Randall with
"our" surgical nurse, Lorna Langlois.
September 19, 2011:
Several weeks ago we packed up a lot of laproscopic
supplies and I mailed them to Florida to be transported
on to Ecuador. Dr. Edgar Rodas does surgeries out of a
converted "surgically equiped" motor home, and also uses
a river barge which has a surgical suite.
Read more.
August 13, 2011:
Dear Friends, this morning as
I reflect on the great day we had Saturday and all the
work that was accomplished I am so very grateful. Thanks
to Bob Adams and his diligence in gathering an army of
workers--and feeding all of us, we had an amazing
morning. Thank you Bob!!
Read more.
August 3, 2011:
In March 2011, Chip Hedrick and three of his fellow
members from the SCI Sutter Buttes Chapter took 6
SafariCare bags to South Africa, where they distributed
two bags to the children at Kleinpoort School and the
other four to the Missionvale Clinic, both in the
Eastern Cape. According to Chip, the hunting was dream
of a lifetime, but the joy of giving will linger much
longer for all of them.
Read more.
June 25, 2011:
Greetings! I am forwarding a note from Natalie Huberman
of LeapingStone who sponsored the shipment to Togo. This
has been a difficult shipment to get through especially
since it was a combined container, 20 ft. going to Lome,
Togo & 20 ft. going to Burkina Faso. We are immensely
grateful to hear it has arrived. Katy Warren who raised
the funds for Burkina Faso, also emailed stating the
truck is being loaded for Dano, Burkina Faso and will
depart either today or tomorrow.
Read more.
April 9, 2011:
What a privilege to attend the 2011 Medical Mission Hall
of Fame, and meet these very deserving inductees: Sania
Nishtar, Founder, Heartfile, Islamabad, Pakistan; Edgar
and Dolores Rodas, Founders,The Cinterandes Foundation,
Cuenca, Ecuador; and George and Sheila Varghese, Lady
Willingdon Hospital, Manali, India. Thank you to our
hosts, including Dr. Glenn Geelhoed, for making us feel
so welcome.
March 14, 2011:
A big "thank you" to all our friends at
Professional Hospital Supply.
They deliver to our storage units in Chico almost every
Tuesday morning and have given thousands of dollars of
supplies and equipment--- which we in turn have placed
in 37 countries. They have been such an amazing help to
Project SAVE!
February
14, 2011:
I received an email minutes ago that Dr. Geelhoed's
container arrived in Sudan. We sent several oxygenators
which were donated by Enloe Home Medical Equipment as
well as many boxes of surgical items for this shipment
which Dr. Geelhoed picked out himself while visiting our
warehouse here in Chico. Read more...
January
25, 2011: Thanks to the
volunteers who helped with packing for our shipment to
Kurdistan, including Chico cardiologist Dr. Darrel
Lary, and President of Cardiostart, Dr. Aubyn Marath.
Read more...
December 15, 2010:
When I became a volunteer for Project S.A.V.E, one of
the things I was particularly looking forward to was
being able to help the people of Haiti in some way. My
heart sank a bit when I was informed that Project
S.A.V.E., along with many other organizations, had great
difficulty with past shipments because of the corruption
in Haiti, so their involvement would be conditional.
Read more...
October 30,
2010:
I received
this message and photos today from Dr. Bill McCoy and
his wife, Marsha, about our shipment to Kudjip Nazarene
Hospital in Papau New Guinea. "We unloaded the
Project SAVE Container on Friday. Put lots of
things right into use.
Read more...
October 18,
2010:
Greetings to all! My thanks to
each of you. We accomplished a huge task! The shipment
to the Philippines was our largest, by number of items,
of any shipment so far. The total number of boxes/items
was 921! Everyone worked so hard both with the packing
and shipping of this container and we so appreciate each
of you. We had several "first timers" helping pack the
container and I am so grateful for their part.
Read more...
September 29, 2010:
Greetings to all, I just
received this and wanted to share it with you. Dr.
McCoy is the missionary from Papua New Guinea that was
with us this summer and to whom we have shipped several
containers of supplies. When you read this story,
please know many of these little ones are being checked
out on exam tables we have sent, treated with "our"
supplies and have benefited greatly from the medical
supplies many of you have personally donated, packed &
sent. Read Dr.
McCoy's story...
September
18, 2010:
This message comes from Jim Ledgerwood
of Chico: "I just got back from my recent safari to
the South Eastern part of Zimbabwe. I spent my time
mostly in the Chitsa area on the Save River. Our camp
was in Chibwedzva bordering the Runde River."
Read more...
September
4, 2010:
I
received this message and photo from Dr. Aubyn Marath
with Cardiostart. I am so glad to see the idea of the
flag passed along. It's exciting to see another
container going from another city. This one contained
items from our Chico Project SAVE warehouse. "Dear Janice and
David and Darrell, we borrowed your idea for this smooth
container dispatch - our first out of Portland! Thanks
for your kind advice and support."
July 31, 2010:
Your donation went to The clinic in Santa Rita de
Castilla on the Peruvian Amazon border, and supported
our team of two Peruvian national doctors, a North
American nurse and three paramedics that went another
190 miles deep into the jungle to the tiny village of
Dos de Mayo.
Read more...
June 12, 2010:
Thanks so much for everyone who helped with our load
today to Dr. Bill McCoy in Papua, New Guinea. Every
single item fit like a giant puzzle!
Read more...
May 15, 2010:
Many, many thanks for all your assistance in
donating, packing and the actual "hard work" of loading
the container to Belize. he volunteers worked very hard
packing a totally full container which should be a real
blessing upon arrival in Belize.
Read more...
Photo
diary
from Ray
Rochelle
March 25, 2010:
I just wanted to say a hearty
THANK YOU for all the efforts you gave yesterday in
getting things from the Enloe/Cohasset site to our
warehouse. We had such a great group of helpers! Many
hands made for quick, efficient loading.
Read
more...
View
our videos:
Ghana, here we come!
From Chico to Kenya
with Love
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"We had no wheelchairs, so we moved patients in wheelbarrows."
Dr. Bill McCoy
Papua, New Guinea
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"When we ran out of sutures we used fishing line."
Dr. Eugene Cleek
Cameroon, Africa
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