Save Transportation Funding for Europe/Eurasia
A Call To Serve, International is able to leverage each dollar of transportation funding into $25 of relief for citizens of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
Dear Member of Congress,
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992, A Call to Serve International (ACTS) has received transportation grants provided by the Department of State?s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR/ACE) to send containers of medical supplies to Georgia.
Your constituents here in Missouri realize that difficult economic times are forcing you to examine allocations, even the comparatively small $500,000 that has been allocated to ACTS each year. Without the transportation funding, it will be very difficult to continue to ship the medical supplies donated here in the United States. In 2011, for each $1 of transportation grant money, $25 in privately donated medications and medical supplies were shipped.
We, like many in mid-Missouri, encourage you to maintain the availability of the Department of State's EUR/ACE transportation grant to ACTS, a Missouri-based, 20-year-old non-profit that has provided more than $800 million dollars in goods to more than a million Georgians. In addition, ACTS has established numerous cross-cultural relationships with Georgia, including sister cities, sister schools in Columbia, MO, and physician/student training between the University of Missouri and the University of Tbilisi. Initially focused on relief efforts, ACTS began incorporating development programs early on to complement and sustain its ongoing humanitarian aid and health care interventions, including the establishment of an in-country affiliate, ACTS-Georgia.
Successful ongoing programs include a children's diabetes camp, maternal and child health projects, a soup kitchen for the elderly, and other health programming through Lions Club, Rotary, and the Boone County Medical Society. The transportation grant is not an earmark and has been key in getting supplies to where they are needed.
We strongly encourage you to maintain the current funding.
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992, A Call to Serve International (ACTS) has received transportation grants provided by the Department of State?s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR/ACE) to send containers of medical supplies to Georgia.
Your constituents here in Missouri realize that difficult economic times are forcing you to examine allocations, even the comparatively small $500,000 that has been allocated to ACTS each year. Without the transportation funding, it will be very difficult to continue to ship the medical supplies donated here in the United States. In 2011, for each $1 of transportation grant money, $25 in privately donated medications and medical supplies were shipped.
We, like many in mid-Missouri, encourage you to maintain the availability of the Department of State's EUR/ACE transportation grant to ACTS, a Missouri-based, 20-year-old non-profit that has provided more than $800 million dollars in goods to more than a million Georgians. In addition, ACTS has established numerous cross-cultural relationships with Georgia, including sister cities, sister schools in Columbia, MO, and physician/student training between the University of Missouri and the University of Tbilisi. Initially focused on relief efforts, ACTS began incorporating development programs early on to complement and sustain its ongoing humanitarian aid and health care interventions, including the establishment of an in-country affiliate, ACTS-Georgia.
Successful ongoing programs include a children's diabetes camp, maternal and child health projects, a soup kitchen for the elderly, and other health programming through Lions Club, Rotary, and the Boone County Medical Society. The transportation grant is not an earmark and has been key in getting supplies to where they are needed.
We strongly encourage you to maintain the current funding.
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