Mission / What We Do
The BEA Society facilitates the distribution of urgently needed medical supplies to providers in underserved, rural communities in the US and the developing world.
Our Mission
The BEA Society is dedicated to eliminating health inequality and enhancing health outcomes by facilitating the acquisition and distribution of urgently needed medical supplies to providers in underserved, rural communities in the US and the developing world.
Why is this effort important? Let’s examine statistics for maternal mortality in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization:
- 94% of maternal mortality occurs in the developing world
- Infant mortality is 10-90x greater in the developing world
- Over 800 women die every day from preventable complications from pregnancy and childbirth
- The risk of maternal death is 1 in 45 in developing countries vs. 1 in 5400 in developed countries.
- Access to basic care with clean supplies can dramatically improve outcomes at delivery and save lives with healthier newborns, fewer peripartum complications for mothers, and faster recoveries from childbirth.
- By providing consistent and high quality care, health care providers build trust in the community, thereby encouraging women to seek prenatal care which perpetuates the improvement for safer future pregnancies and improved maternal and infant mortality rates.
Source: Trends in maternal mortality: 2000 to 2017: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Maternal Mortality data. World Health Organization, September 19, 2019. www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality
What We Do
To accomplish our mission of facilitating the distribution of urgently needed medical supplies to providers serving communities with limited resources, the BEA society:
- Campaigns in our local community and web platforms raising awareness of the disparity in healthcare access and solicits donations to facilitate our acquisition of essential medical supplies.
- Partners and distributes these supplies to high quality healthcare providers.
Our corporate sponsorships and partnerships with charitable distribution programs have allowed the BEA Society to purchase high quality medical supplies at or below cost, thus exponentially compounding the value of our donors’ contributions.
Our organization strives to differentiate itself from other larger charitable organizations by eliminating administrative expenses that reduce the value of a donation’s impact toward the provision of care. Thus, a $100 donation to the BEA Society will provide $100 of medical supplies to mothers and infants in the developing world. Donors will receive transparent detailed reports that attest how 100% of their donations were used in the provision of medical supplies. Click here for example tax-deductible receipt.
Thank you for yet another shipment of supplies for Maison de Naissance…Your contributions are more precious to Maisson de Naissance’s operations in turn, and we are sincerely grateful for your generosity of time and spirit to procure and ship supplies.
Testimonial from Jim Grant, Global Birthing Home Foundation