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International Relief with Direct Relief
Covid Response Clinics
Tents serve as mobile clinics to over 800,000 refugees in Bangladesh.
Shelters for Syrian Refugees
Shelters sent to Direct Relief partners
Patients treated in Mexico clinics.
Our Safe Shelter project wouldn’t be possible at the scope it is today if it wasn’t for our partner, Direct Relief. Their mission is to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and emergencies. Thanks to their efforts in over 80 countries around the globe, Tifie can quickly deliver tents to people who truly need a safe shelter.
Direct Relief responds quickly and sustainably to emergencies— primarily focusing on health care needs of the affected regions. Their support of the area goes far beyond the immediate aftermath of the emergency, providing sustainable support to their partners, avoiding the ‘love ‘em and leave ‘em’ cycle that can be so damaging.
Direct Relief was an early responder in delivering essential protective gear and emergency medicine to hospitals and clinics around the world. As testing needs ramped up, so did the need for separate testing areas. Barebones tents have been sent to clinics who have testing capacity. Direct Relief keeps shelters in stock at their facility in California in order to be able to rapidly respond to emergencies and ship immediately.
Direct Relief sent shelters to Mexico City to be used as mobile medical clinic in areas where individuals had difficulty getting to a clinic. Every week mobile clinics were constructed, taken down, then set up again, in different locations to serve the community. Because of their great success, when the earthquake in October 2019 hit the area, the Ministry of Health requested Barebones shelters to be used as a temporary community center and clinic in Morales Mexico. This is an excellent example of how good people find good people, and good partners multiply the opportunities to serve the community. We've been impressed that Direct Relief operates in generosity and abundance with all of their partners.
Campaign Locations
Patients Treated Directly
Direct Impact to the Community
“As nice as the photos were, they didn’t capture what was so evident to me being there and seeing how much they meant. Beyond the obvious benefit— the community now has a place for health services to be provided— was a palpable sense of pride, hope, and forward movement. Those elements are always sort of the x-factor or special ingredient, without which things can just reset to a depressingly worse situation that only gets harder and harder to reverse as time goes on. The tents— because they are so nice, had been so carefully managed, looked so tight and orderly, and were put into immediate use— were a catalyst for that. The clinical staff and local leaders took great pride showing everyone the quality of the tents and how they’d been organized and were being used, and the response of the local citizens was similarly positive and upbeat.”
