International Health
In addition to our large shipments, we try to help as many areas in the world with what we can. In our first year, we sent several boxes of supplies to Peru with Project Suyana, a partner student organization, and to Ghana with one of our members, Joey Perosky. Joey gives a first hand account of the impact our supplies had on a rural hospital.
Ghana
by Joey Perosky
This summer, I went to Ghana and spent four weeks at the Komfo Anoche Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.
The other students on the trip and I brought medical supplies sent by Children of Abraham to the hospital there.
We also brought medical supplies to a small hospital in a rural village. I only got to spend three days there, but they were three days that changed my life forever.
Dr. Ofosu, the doctor at the rural hospital, was the only doctor for 100,000 people. He worked from 8 a.m. to the late hours of the night, seven days a week, and never complained. He also woke up during the night to do emergency surgeries. Dr. Ofosu told us, “I wanted to leave after two years, I have been here for four years now. If I leave the people will die.”
Children of Abraham sent him a pulse oximeter, many pairs of surgical scissors and forceps, and many other supplies. When I gave him the supplies, he was thrilled. The surgical scissors and forceps were autoclaved that night and used in surgery the next day (see the picture above). 
Watching Dr. Ofosu performing surgery with these supplies, that he otherwise wouldn’t have had, is testimony to the fact that we truly can make a difference in the world. Undergraduate students and community members really do have the chance to save many lives.