On [date] Mercedes [Last Name] visited Cuba and learned of the conditions that people in [situation] are facing.  They are in need of medical supplies, struggling to meet the needs of x patients.  Mercedes knew that hospitals and health centers in her area had supplies to spare and coordinated X and X to donate X pounds of supplies including X, Y, Z to be sent to [hospital]. 

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Now, all that is standing in the way of this medical supplies helping [people] is the $30,000 cost to ship the containers to [port].  

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This is a tax deductible donation to {insert fund].