Last month, GE Reports launched the first video in our series about getting critical healthcare equipment to the conflict and poverty-stricken communities that need it the most in Darfur, the Central African Republic, and Chad. In our second video, GE’s equipment — which includes mobile x-rays, ultrasounds, baby warmers, patient monitors and fetal dopplers — makes the tough, and dangerous, slog through Chad. Treacherous and insecure roads are just some of the challenges for the International Medical Corps members who are using the donations in their medical centers in Africa that serve up to 480,000 people. IMC Logistics Officer Ibrahim Mansaray traveled with the equipment and filed this report.



In 2008, GE and the GE Foundation donated $1.2 million to address the crisis in Darfur, with $500,000 of that commitment earmarked for healthcare equipment to support the International Medical Corps’s efforts. The remaining $700,000 was the GE Foundation’s emergency grant to the IMC for humanitarian efforts to help the people in the Darfur region of Sudan.

We’ll continue to track the donations on their journey from in-country receipt to points of use through video blogs from IMC teams in the field. Updates will be posted as they arrive on www.ge.com/citizenship.

* Watch Part 1 of our video series
* Learn about the GE Foundation’s disaster relief efforts
* Learn about GE’s Developing Health Globally program
* Learn more about GE’s healthymagination business strategy
* Read about our donation of neonatal medical equipment in the UK
* Read about our healthymagination work in Bangladesh
* Learn more about our partnership with Grameen Healthcare Trust
* Learn about our work in Cambodia