I go to the store more than I’d like. And when I go, I often pass the pharmacy area to get to the parts of the store I need or prefer. It hit me the other day that I pass 10-15 ROWS of medicine and supplies! We call these OTC or Over-the-Counter medicines, these are things we consider standard and expect them to be in stock when we need them. We here in America are frustrated and surprised when they are not available.
The majority of the world does not have the same experience!
You can help! FAME sends OTC medicines with teams and in shipments to over 40 countries every year! I just learned that the FAME warehouse supplies are actually very low.
Are you going to the store? Click here to see the list of OTC Medicines that are a priority for FAME partners, and pick up an item or two- mail them to FAME and you will impact many who have little resources or hope!
If you’d like to take it a step further, do like our friends at First Church of Christ in Greendale, Indiana. They went to www.fameworld.org/shipping-medicines-and-supplies and set up what we call a “Cardboard Pharmacy” at their church. FAME sends an email packet and boxes you can use to ship items collected back to FAME. This Church just informed us that 9 boxes of OTC medicines are ready to come to FAME.
Going to the store. Such a common part of our lives here, but an opportunity to change lives around the world!
Thank you for your partnership!!
Bill Warren
Executive Director