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Hope Resource Network

In 2005, the response to Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how critically important it is for relief organizations to work together. Since that time, Humanitarian International Services Group (HISG) has been connecting like-minded resource and logistics providers whose passion and purpose is the effective and efficient acquisition and distribution of valuable goods to worthy humanitarian projects worldwide. This partnership, called the Hope Resource Network, is made up of warehousing, transportation, and manufacturing firms, along with other NGOs, working together to provide aid in disaster situations as well as for general humanitarian relief. HISG has developed partnerships with over 20 different warehouses in the United States and one in Hong Kong, and has access to a number of other logistics providers through HISG's existing networks.

The Hope Resource Network (HRN) is an essential part of how HISG connects resources to needs around the world. Building relationships to work together allows these warehouses to ship more goods to needy people worldwide, access a wide variety of goods to meet more specific needs, and cut down or even eliminate shipping costs. The HRN has been set up to serve the entire supply chain; from the origin of the resource all the way to the organization or individual who receives the goods. The HRN strives to see the goods effectively distributed to those in need in the field.

Members of the Hope Resource Network have worked together to ship food to the Middle East and multiple countries in Africa; disaster relief supplies to Central America; and medical equipment and supplies to Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

The Hope Resource Network offers a proven system to manage gift-in-kind donations and help deliver those donations to the people around the world who are in great need. Please contact us for more information on how the network operates and how your organization can become a part of it.

The Library in Uganda

Can you imagine if you had never even held a book before, or had the opportunity to read for yourself?

A container from the Hope Resource Network brought enough books to Masese, Uganda to start a library for the local school and the community. The library is more than just a collection of books, it is a picture of hope for the future for this small hidden village in the middle of the slums of Jinja. Going into the library at virtually any time, you see adults and children reading. It is amazing to see the smiles as they pick up a book, hold it in their hands, and get to read it for the first time.

There is a real satisfaction on each person’s face when the books seem to come alive for them. And there is a real satisfaction in unleashing so many new possibilities for the families in Masese.

Rescue in Ethiopia

As we go through life, there are a few times when purpose and destiny collide. HRN members HELP International found themselves at this crossroads in early 2011 in a small village in Northern Ethiopia. This is their story:

This is one of those times that will forever be etched in my memory. During a trip to Ethiopia, I kept seeing four children, about 2, 4, 5, and 7, running around the village. They were always dressed in ragged clothes and seemingly directionless. As I asked in the village, it became clear that their mother was very sick in the hospital, and there was no one to take care of the children.

I purposed to go and see her. What I found was heartbreaking; a woman whose body had been ravaged by AIDS, now only a frail portion of whom she once had been. As I sat on her bed, one of her children asleep in her arms, she proceeded to tell me of her illness and fight with AIDS. Her husband had died 2 years before. As I sat on her bed that day and wept with her over her situation, I asked her what she really needed. “I need only one thing,” she said. “I want my children to be able to stay together. The government wants to send them to different places, and even different countries, but I have said NO! Once I am gone, I need YOU to help me keep them together.”

I sat and cried with her, and promised to do what I could. She died just one week later.

It was true that the government was making arrangements to send the children to separate homes. The process was nearly complete when a government representative abruptly changed course, saying that the children could stay together if we could find a place for them.

A man named Elem, at an orphanage outside of Mekele, Ethiopia, was the answer these children were hoping for. Today, they are attending school, and living together just as their mother had intended. They are well-adjusted and happy, and I stand in awe of how quickly the pieces fell into place for them to remain a family. The HRN outreach is another way that HISG can help others, and make a small difference in this world. We want you to join us.