Take My Hands

Take My Hands connects those that have with those that have a need, by rehoming usable medical equipment from NZ to health providers working with people in need in the Asia Pacific region.

We exist because each year the equivalent of nearly 600,000kg of usable medical equipment ends up in landfills across our country. At the same time we are dumping it, people in the Asia Pacific region are dying or becoming sicker because of a major lack of resource and equipment. It's true! We've heard stories of people dying because the local hospital in Fiji didn't have a defibrillator, or mothers and their new born babies having to lie on the floor because the hospital didn't have a bed.

We do this by working with hospitals and health providers in NZ collecting the usable medical equipment and resources they no longer need. We also work with health providers in the Pacific and Asia that work with people in need. They tell us what they need, and we match that with the equipment our hospitals and health providers give us.

Then we work with warehousing, transport and logistic partners utilising the spare capacity that exists in their business (as much as we can) to collate and transport that equipment to our recipient health providers in the Asia Pacific Region so that the equipment can be used where it’s needed most.

We are a tiny organisation tackling two massive problems. We know the health and wellbeing of our closest neighbours in the Asia Pacific region is in crisis because they lack equipment and resources, and we know that we have only just tapped the supply of useable equipment that can really make a difference to that crisis.

So far we’ve been able to send over 75,000kg of equipment to help over 110000 people in 5 different countries. We’ve done that with a team of volunteers and less than $40,000. We’re pretty good at leveraging what we have to work with to create some impressive outcomes, and we know we can make the absolute best of every cent and every minute of support we get. Your support of Take My Hands really will have a massive impact.

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?

You can for just $50 you can change a life. purchase piece of equipment and a part of one of our containers that will be shipped a health provider in the Pacific. It's kind of like buying that chicken or goat for a village campaign you hear about, but with medical equipment.

Here's our price list:

$50 gets you a wheel chair and the equivalent of a 1/4 foot in one of our 20 or 40 ft containers.

$100 gets you a wheel chair, and a medical trolley, and the equivalent of a 1/2 foot in one of containers.

$200 gets you a hospital bed and the equivalent of 1 foot in one of our containers.

That wheel chair will give a hospital in the Solomon Islands a clean way to get patients to the ward, or a person with a disability in Fiji will be able to be more independent and get themselves around their community - effectively changing a life. The hospital bed will be mean that new born babies won't have to sleep on the floor with their Mum's.