Here are some of the other organizations that SRW works with in order to provide services and supplies.

Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach

4939 LaVerna Road
P.O. Box 1665
Springfield, IL 62705

Mission Outreach was organized in 2002 as a humanitarian effort, working with healthcare organizations to recover and responsibly redistribute medical equipment and supplies to people in need around the world. President/CEO Bruce Compton had experienced the challenges associated with equipment redistribution firsthand. As the Director of Administration and Finance for a rural Haitian clinic that served 200,000 people, he had received countless donations of supplies that were unusable because they either did not fit the needs of his center or were inoperable. With no mechanism in place in Haiti to pass on or dispose of the unused items, receiving donations often became more hardship than help.

Today, Mission Outreach distributes more than $2 million in surplus equipment and supplies each year, with accountability measures in place to ensure appropriate distribution. Bruce Compton is still at the helm and, while the organization officially incorporated as a separate entity in 2006, its mission clearly continues the tradition that began when the Hospital Sisters came to Illinois from Germany to begin their Midwest healthcare ministry.

Today, Mission Outreach works with the 13 hospitals of Hospital Sisters Health System, along with two additional health systems and more than 20 individual hospitals throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.

During FY 2007, Mission Outreach achieved:
Increased access to quality health care in more than 25 countries around the globe.
Distribution of more than 400,000 pounds of medical equipment and supplies, valued at more than $2 million, to healthcare institutions throughout the world.
Prevention of more than 670,000 pounds of usable surplus from ending up in landfills and salvage yards in the US.

SRW has recently entered into a collaborative relationship with Mission Outreach that will benefit both organizations, and facilitate the timely processing of donated supplies and equipment. Our partnership will allow for more goods to get to more people in need, thus furthering the missions of both HSMO and SRW. SRW will serve as a first-sort for donated medical supplies, which will then be taken to HSMO for further sorting, packaging and shipment to recipients in need. This partnership will help to expand the reach of both organizations, and to increase the beneficiaries of our work.

Counterpart International

1200 18th St. N. W. Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036

Founded in 1965 this nonprofit organization is dedicated to building a just world through service and partnership. Their mission is to give people a voice in their own future through smart partnerships, offering options and access to tools for sustained social, economic and environmental development. They focus on improving access to and quality of care for the most vulnerable. They also seek to bridge the gap between emergency assistance and long- term development.

SRW has been able to work with them to provide much needed medical supplies and equipment for other parts of the world (such as Moldova in 2006) where they are desperately needed. SRW provides the inventory for those shipments and Counterpart is able to fund the shipping and has the contacts in that country to assure the arrival of the needed supplies and equipment to the correct institution or organization.

Providence World Ministries

Alfredo Cerrato, President & Executive Director
PO Box 50413
Nashville, TN 37205-0413

Ministers to and advocates for orphaned children and widows. They seek to establish innovative, culturally appropriate communities of care for orphans and widows, while advocating for them among governments, society, and the church.

PWM has a clinic with two operating rooms on their site for the orphanage. SRW is able to completely furnish this clinic with all equipment and supplies to make it an operating facility where medical teams and local Honduran doctors will be able to make use of the facility to help Hondurans with their surgical needs. SRW is able to furnish everything from doors and sinks to anesthesia machines and operating room tables and sterile gloves and hospital linen and supplies. Truly a collaborative effort!

Knightsbridge International

PO Box 4394
West Hills, California 91308-4394

Knightsbridge International, Inc., is a California 501(c), (3), Non-Membership, Not for Profit Corporation (state and federal tax exempt # 95- 4546892), dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief worldwide without regard to race, religion or national origin. Founded in August 1995 by several members of a self-styled US Priory of the Knights of Malta and OSMTH TEMPLAR Knights for the specific purpose of providing an independent vehicle through which focused international and domestic humanitarian assistance and medical relief programs could be organized.

SRW is able to collaborate with Sir Edward Artis in his mission in the Philippines by providing over 800 hospital beds and related equipment and supplies to his organization for shipment to various parts of the Philippines. Sir Artis tells us that he can raise the quality of the health care by a huge amount by just getting the patients off of floors and into beds for treatment and SRW was able to meet that need with no longer needed manual hospital beds from this part of Wisconsin that are now a part of several hospitals and clinics in the Philippines.

Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II

Lurín - Lima (16), Perú

Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II, Lurín, Peru, a mission of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II was founded in March of 1986 when Father Jospeh Walijewski, of the Diocese of La Crosse, saw a better future for orphaned and abandoned children. Now over 20 years in existence, the orphanage uses the famous Girls & Boys Town Program from Boys Town, Nebraska. The management, as well as the children's health, happiness, and behavior, make Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II a leader in childcare services with at-risk youth in Peru.

A part of the outreach at Casa Hogar is assisting with the health of children of Peru who are not orphans but in need of medical care unavailable to them. SRW has assisted with that effort since our beginning by taking a medical/surgical team yearly to Lima, Iquitos, and Arequipa, Peru where our team provides eye surgeries, plastic surgeries, ENT surgery and eye prosthetic care and services to the children of Peru. Several missions have also included eyeglass missions where thousands of eye exams were accomplished and appropriate glasses provided on each mission.

While working closely with the staff of Casa Hogar and with the support of the Diocese of La Crosse and others SRW has been able to provide services to hundreds of Peruvian children who would otherwise never receive that care. Our Collaborative efforts provide not only that care and services but much needed equipment and supplies to the institutions we work in while in Peru. This very successful collaborative effort crosses countries, cultures, and languages.

Familias Especiales Santa Julia Billiart

APDO 162
Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Foundacion Familias Especiales de Santa Julia Billiart (FE) of the Dioceses of Matagalpa Nicaragua is a non-governmental non-profit agency founded in 1996 with its legal juridical in 2001. It began with an invitation by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Matagalpa to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to try to give support to families who have children with disabilities. Sister Rebecca, a sister of Notre Dame, invited Marlene Hernandez to walk with her through the barrios of Matagalpa. Then they organized an extensive census involving more than 300 high school students and 6 social agencies going door to door to identify families with children with disabilities. The idea was to strengthen these families and connect them to others within the society to continue to support their special needs.

Special Families has developed programs organically over the years by helping the mothers recognizing and articulate their own needs. More than 1,200 families who represent some of the poorest in our society with the majority being single mothers, have found ways to join together. The mothers of Special Families now work with professionals to meet the following goals:
1. To help families attain the basic needs and services to help their handicapped children in the areas of health, education, employment, social, spiritual, etc.
2. To help mothers work together to support each other in different groups and programs.
3. To sensitize the wider community to the abilities and needs of the handicapped and their families.

Programs offered by Familias Especiales include a special education center; a handicapped accessible children’s park; a yogurt and cheese factory; a café and art store; a sign and printing company; a paper recycling program; a mental health program; a chicken farm; a wheel chair workshop; neighborhood outreach and development programs; women empowerment programs; domestic violence intervention and prevention programs; and a variety of clubs, commissions, and other associations for the handicapped.

SRW is able to assist Familias Especiales by providing necessary material support to its various programs. SRW's Wisconsin/Nicaragua Wheelchair Project worked hand- in- hand with Familias Especiales in the creation of the wheelchair workshop in Matagalpa, and continues to supply the workshop with wheelchairs, tools, equipment and spare parts, and other mobility devices such as canes, walkers and crutches. SRW ships on average 2 40foot containers of supplies and equipment to Familias Especiales each year. Our material aid includes clothing, school supplies, basic medical supplies, household supplies, toys and stuffed animals and physical therapy equipment.