World Care - it can be done
Published: August 22, 2003
Imagine. Dream. Imagine dreaming about world care.
“I dreamed I was in front of an airplane with World Care on the side. I had a clipboard in my hand and all these boxes were around me. It wouldn’t leave my head.”
Imagine living your dream. Lisa Hopper did just that. Shortly after she had her dream in 1994 it became reality. Kind of. The plane has yet to arrive and the boxes have turned out to be containers…
“We’re filling 40-foot containers one at a time and building clinics all over the world,” says Hopper, whose network of donors and contacts stretches from Tucson to Afghanistan.
In the 17,000 square foot warehouse from which World Care operates she has stored just about anything. Books, blankets for the homeless, medical supplies, school desks. In 1999 after a serious earthquake she shipped half a million worth of buses to Turkey.
Nonreligious, nonpolitical and unhampered by bureaucracy, World Care serves as the collection and distribution force for some 150 local agencies.
It does so with 2.5 employees and 500 volunteers, who range from 4-year-olds who sharpen pencils to octogenarians.
In turn, Hopper and her organization have been recognized with a slew of honors, including one from the Points of Light Foundation.
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