BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rugged Medical Transport, a not-for-profit organization developing medical transport in remote areas, announced today the launch of its crowdfunding campaign. The campaign is fiscally sponsored by Humanitarian Social Innovations (HSI), a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to inspire and connect social entrepreneurs with the resources necessary to empower them and to maximize their humanitarian impact.
Rugged Medical Transport has secured its first building site in Tanzania, East Africa, and funds raised will support building gyrocopters to provide medical transportation in rural areas in the African Bush. The campaign has a donation goal of $100,000.
“Nearly 20 percent of women in Tanzania die in child birth. Most deaths are preventable if they could get to a hospital in time,” said Patrick Wensel, executive director of Rugged Medical Transport.
Each gyrocopter costs approximately $35,000 to build, utilizes car engines easily found and maintained in rural Africa and requires little skill to fly and maintain. For information on donations, please visit our Crowdrise page.
ABOUT RUGGED MEDICAL TRANSPORT
Rugged Medical Transport is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to bring usable and sustainable air transportation to countries lacking roads in order to reverse deaths caused by extensive travel time to hospitals. The organization builds and deploys easily maintained gyrocopters that require little training to fly, allowing those with medical emergencies to reach help faster in The African Bush. We aim to create, find and support medical transportation that directly improves the health and well being of adults and children across the globe. For more information, visit ruggedmedicaltransport.org.
ABOUT HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS
Humanitarian Social Innovations, Inc. (HSI) is the fiscal sponsor for Rugged Medical Transport, and receives funds for the charitable purpose fulfilled by Rugged Medical Transport. HSI treats funds received for the purpose of this project as restricted under the charitable trust doctrine. All funds, minus administrative fees, are dedicated to the purpose of this project and will not be used to pay the expenses of another. Monies from this restricted fund are re-granted to Rugged Medical Transport as needed for the fulfillment of their charitable mission.