Direct Relief
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Mission: Improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay.
Joined February 2009
In response to the #TaalVolcano eruption in the #Philippines, @DirectRelief, in coordination with @ASEAN, @AHACentre, & the Philippines Red Cross, is delivering an initial 42,000 N95 masks to local organizations in affected areas.
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Handing out 4,000 N-95 masks at two SB locations this morning. Franklin Community Center & Goleta Costco. #ThomasFire
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Thank you, @taylorswift13, for your incredible generosity and compassion in supporting those impacted by the devastating wildfires in Southern California. 🫶. #lafires #Californiafires #eaton #altadena #losangeles #fires
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@tonightwalker While we sincerely appreciate your interest and support—and would, of course, welcome such news—we wanted to clarify that Thomas Tighe hasn’t made this statement. We wanted to share this clarification to avoid any confusion. For accurate information about Direct Relief's response.
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@TheRunawayGuys @TheRunawayGuys A huge thank you for raising over $200,000 to benefit Direct Relief's COVID-19 response efforts!
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One of gaming’s most successful annual charity streams will start this weekend as @TheRunawayGuys Colosseum enters its fifth year. The event will run for 36 hours, and will include video games, live musical concerts, art creation, & more.
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@tonightwalker While we sincerely appreciate your interest and support—and would, of course, welcome such news—we wanted to clarify that Thomas Tighe hasn’t made this statement. We wanted to share this clarification to avoid any confusion. For accurate information about Direct Relief's response.
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A huge thank you to the community and crew of @GamesDoneQuick for raising over $400,000 to benefit #COVID19 response efforts!
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Direct Relief staff in Puerto Rico are responding in the wake of #HurricaneFiona, as more than 1 million people across the island were without power Monday -- almost five years ago to the day after #HurricaneMaria struck Puerto Rico.
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OUTBOUND: @DirectRelief this week is shipping 250,000 N95 masks & other PPE to roughly 1,000 safety net health facilities in all 50 U.S. states that are playing a critical frontline role as #Covid19 spreads. @NACHC @NAFClinics @CloroxCo @verizon @FedEx
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@RM_Peru @BTS_twt @YonhapNews @JTBC_news @TheKoreaHerald @Luces_ECpe @Planeta107FM @hitmanb @BTS_Peru Thank you for the support!.
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$210,000! To everyone at #Zeldathon, you're incredible! There aren't the words to express our thanks, so here:
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Thank you, @jimmyfallon, @AdamSandler & @FallonTonight. Your support serves as such a wonderful example of everyone coming together, stepping up and doing whatever's doable to help others. @DirectRelief is so deeply grateful for your consideration.
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#Coronavirus: Additional medical resources departing for China to protect health workers, and a message from @DirectRelief CEO Thomas Tighe.
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Hurricane #Harvey: @DirectRelief Providing Emergency Funding for #Texas Community Health Centers @TexasCHCs
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OUTBOUND: 13 pallets of protective gear for Navajo Nation -- including more than 14,000 N95 & surgical masks, 10,300 exam gloves, & hundreds of face shields, thermometers & pulse oximeters for Northern Navajo Medical Center & Gallup Indian Medical Center.
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1,300 lbs / 243,379 doses of urgently needed medicine arrived today in #PuertoRico. More on the way.
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Thank you, @BunBTrillOG @scooterbraun & everyone who's making this happen. It will mean so much for communities in need #handinhand
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Thank you @SuperMCGamer and everyone who helped make this #Zeldathon such an amazing experience. Your support will make a huge difference.
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Direct Relief announced today that it will commit $500,000 to support health efforts in #Ukraine and surrounding countries absorbing refugees fleeing violence and disruption.
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Deploying nearly 10,000 N95 masks, oxygen concentrators & essential medicine in response to #CaliforniaWildfires.
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#Zeldathon: 6 days of nonstop videogames = $104,000.00. What a wonderful group of people. To the players, donors, and viewers - THANK YOU!.
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#Zeldathon attendees, your support is already making a difference! Thank you so much, and remember: #dontgetblasted
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#Zeldathon hype running wild at @DirectRelief! We're so stoked by you all, keep it up and #dontgetblasted
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OUTBOUND: Another 12 shipments today of protective gear to safeguard health workers in Boston, Los Angeles, NYC, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Seattle. #covid_19 #coronavirus
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The first of the 370 pallets of #Ebola aid are starting to load now at JFK airport. http://t.co/gI8fte8VWv.
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To honor the courage of frontline health workers with meaningful support & ensure those most at risk from #COVID19 get care—regardless of politics or ability to pay—@DirectRelief is joining with @glblctzn for One World: #TogetherAtHome—8 p.m. ET. Tonight.
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Direct Relief will hold the second annual Speedrun Colosseum live-streamed gaming event October 6-8, featuring some of the world’s best video game speedrunners and benefitting the organization’s global disaster & emergency response efforts. Learn more:.
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Delivering 15.6k vials of insulin donated by @Sanofi to clinics and hospitals across #PuertoRico, helping care for people with #diabetes.
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A 76-ton airlift of urgently needed meds has landed in Puerto Rico to support the island's health centers, hospitals and public health dept.
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Wheels up. 17 tons of medical aid bound for Haiti. Profound thanks to @FedEx for making it possible w/ donated 757 charter. #fedexcares
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Over the span of four days, 25 gamers raised more than $100,000 for charity by playing a suite of Super Mario games and streaming the broadcast live out to their fans. @DirectRelief_G
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Today, Direct Relief is preparing more than 60 pallets worth of emergency aid for distribution to #Ukraine. The shipment, requested by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, includes essential medications, oxygen concentrators, emergency medical backpacks, & more.
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- 9 cargo jets ✈️.- 20 million+ masks 😷.- 50 million+ PPE items total.- 24 African countries 🌍.- 30+ organizations working together to protect 1 million community health workers for 1 year. #COVIDAction #PPE #PPEforAll.
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Emergency medical aid from @DirectRelief bound for Castaner, #PuertoRico to assist #HurricaneMaria relief efforts
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Protective gear reaches medical workers preparing a drive-through #covi̇d19 testing site in Los Angeles. @CoreResponseOrg #PPE
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How Rihanna’s foundation @ClaraLionelFdn is rethinking disaster response - via @FastCompany @adele_peters
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Helping out real life heroes like each of you @CHISouthFl is a privilege. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you Direct Relief for your donation of N95 masks to help keep our COVID19 response teams safe.
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Today, four pallets of insulin, weighing more than one ton, arrived in #Ukraine, and the 2,400-pound shipment was delivered to Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, which will use the life-saving medicines to support people living with diabetes in the country.
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Medical aid from @DirectRelief is delivered to evacuees on Wednesday as recovery efforts continue after yesterday's 7.1 #earthquake.
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UPDATE: @DirectRelief staff is bound for #PuertoRico to deliver additional medical aid to support #HurricaneMaria recovery efforts.
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To the thousands of people who are a part of #Zeldathon -- as well as sponsors @Twitch, @theyetee, @xsplit -- thank you. What an incredible event. @DirectRelief_G @SuperMCGamer @kampydk
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In the year since:.✈️ 29K medical aid shipments .⚖️ 4.9M lbs of aid shipped.😷 82M units of PPE.💊 173M doses of medication.💸 $53M in funds granted.🏥 3K organizations supported .🌍 100 countries.🌎 55 U.S. states & territories.
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"The new rating comes as Direct Relief responds to the concurrent crises of Covid-19, a record-setting hurricane season, and historic wildfires, as well as chronic and widening gaps in health care access globally." @CharityNav.
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"Since late Jan., @DirectRelief has delivered more than 10,000 shipments across all 50 U.S. states & 62 countries. Deliveries have included a wide range of protective gear, oxygen concentrators & ventilators, & more than 40 million doses of medication."
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#Zeldathon, Earth’s Most Legendary Zelda Marathon, Begins for Charity @DirectRelief_G @SuperMCGamer @kampydk @Zeldathons @romscoutSDA.
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Emergency Medical Backpacks are readied for shipment to health centers in North Carolina on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The shipments were requested in advance of #HurricaneFlorence making landfall.
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Outbound: 1000 emergency relief kits for flood-affected families in Louisiana via @FedEx #LouisianaFlood #FedExCares
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🇵🇷 #PuertoRicoEarthquake: With support from organizations like @vocespuertorico, @DirectRelief is organizing teams of doctors, nurses, and mental health counselors to offer medical and mental health services to residents and those staying in shelters.
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To aid mudslide recovery efforts in #Montecito, a new @Ford Raptor for @SBCOUNTYFIRE courtesy of @DirectRelief. #FordRaptor
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Direct Relief announces that it will provide $10 million in grants to community health centers to cover ancillary costs related to their administration of #COVID19 vaccines nationwide.
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Getting ready for our volunteer packing event at #santabarbara HQ! Readying 2,000 care kits for people in need. http://t.co/kdfFszOlNw.
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#PPE, medication & personal care products from @DirectRelief continue to reach frontline health workers confronting #COVID19 in communities across the U.S. Shipments departing this week for providers in dozens of States -- from Washington to Florida & California to Connecticut.
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New day. Same mission: Improve the lives of people in need - without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay - in the US & globally.
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“We’re a work-together community. Holding onto these community feelings, one day at a time, is going to help all of us get through it.” Dispatches from U.S. health workers on the frontline of #Covid19 @NACHC @NAFClinics @CHASSCenter @sabanclinic @nwhealth.
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Because of #COVID19, supply lines for protective gear have contracted, even as "everyone on earth needs it now." .
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Emergency Medical Packs and personal care items were distributed by Costa Salud Community Health Center to hurricane-affected communities in Rincón, Aguadilla and Añasco, Puerto Rico. #PuertoRicoRelief
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Six months later, Direct Relief has sent.- 17,553 shipments;.- 2.8 million lbs;.- 13 million masks;.- 1.3 million face shields;.- 76 million defined daily doses of medication;.- to 2,591 health facilities in 54 U.S. states & territories & .86 countries.
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Deployed several shipments of emergency medical supplies today, including N95 masks & essential medicines, to health facilities in fire zones throughout California. Supplies for Oregon & Washington going out this weekend & over next week. #CaliforniaFires.
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Medical aid from Direct Relief arrived in #Ukraine last week and will continue as needs are made known. The organization will continue monitoring the crisis and will share more information as the situation evolves.
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OUTBOUND: Critical medicines for use in intensive care units to treat patients with #Covid19. @ElmhurstHealth & @nychealthsystem in New York City, will receive these medicines, along with many other hospitals on the frontlines of the pandemic.
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@XOchristinaj @chancetherapper @Complex @ComplexMusic @HollywoodBowl Thank you so much for your generosity in support of hurricane relief efforts.
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OUTBOUND: Life-saving meds to FL and Caribbean. INBOUND: Pets displaced by #HurricaneIrma to a no-kill shelter in CA. @FedEx, #fedexcares
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OUTBOUND: 165 pallets of medical aid for Haitian health facilities impacted by Saturday’s #earthquake are prepped for departure next week via a chartered MD-11 cargo aircraft, free-of-charge, thanks to the generous support of @FedEx. #FedExCares
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Life-saving supplies for health workers on the frontlines of #Ebola being loaded now at #FTWorth Alliance Airport. http://t.co/HEHlLwfxQW.
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N-95 masks available to the public at @DirectRelief HQ (6100 Wallace Becknell Rd., 93117) from 8:30 am - 5:00 pm. Additional distribution points to be announced by 12:00 pm. #CaveFire #SantaBarbara #Goleta @KEYTNC3 @AlysMartinezTV
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Today, emergency medical shipments from Direct Relief containing field medic backpacks, inhalers, essential medicines, oxygen concentrators & more have arrived at a hospital in #Ukraine for people displaced by conflict. 🇺🇦. (Photos courtesy of Charity Fund Modern Village & Town)
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Direct Relief is excited to work with incredibly awesome musicians and their communities in the return of Direct Relief Music Sessions on April 10-16. Creative talent & fun surprises will be on display for a full week as they raise support. Full schedule:
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19 pallets of protective gear arrived via @FedEx this morning at Wenzhou Central Hospital for medical staff on the front lines of the #coronavirus outbreak.
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Direct Relief’s emergency response teams in the Southeast U.S. and the Caribbean are coordinating with local and State-level response agencies to route critical medical resources as needed in the immediate aftermath of #Hurricane #Dorian.
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Schools are closed today in the #Bahamas, not to protest climate change but because of it. #ClimateStrike #ClimateStruck
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Emergency Health Kits containing key medicines and supplies are bound for local health centers in #PuertoRico
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.@FedEx airlift lands in Nepal w/ >100,000 lbs. of emergency aid from @DirectRelief, @Heart_to_Heart & @watermissions
http://t.co/fSmlWmu69m.
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How to help those hurt by #Harvey, #Irma, #Maria and the Mexico #earthquakes: @TexasCHCs @NACHC. via @seattletimes.
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Speechless. With over 2.5 million #charity bits donated, the @Twitch community has already raised more than $200,000 for #charity - nearly halfway to a $500,000 donation match and a week remaining! @DirectRelief_G @romscoutSDA @SuperMCGamer @kampydk.
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Emergency meds & oxygen concentrators arrived today in #ButteCounty, thanks to @InogenOne. Another 25,000 @3M N-95 masks on the way to assist residents and evacuees. #CampFire #CaliforniaFires #wild
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