WORLD VISION
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“We ’ ve grown from 30,000 pallets to 84,000 pallets over the last three years ”
— Tim Covell , Supply Chain Director , GIK , World Vision pillars , including sanitation , bringing clean water to communities , health , education , agriculture – helping a community break the cycle of poverty over the course of a 15-year program .”
Covell spent the two decades preceding his move to World Vision in the private healthcare technology sector . “ I loved the technology , loved the teams – I really had no intention of moving on ,” he recalls . “ As I was thinking about my life , I realized it was time to use those skills I ’ d learned over the years serving in a humanitarian organization .” In December 2016 , Covell jumped at the opportunity to work for World Vision and has since led the company ’ s Gift-in-Kind ( GIK ) operation . “ A GIK is where a corporation will donate products instead of cash ,” he explains .
Every year , Covell and his three major teams work tirelessly to process , allocate and distribute tens of thousands of pallets of donated goods – ranging from bicycles and wheelchairs to clothing and school supplies – to some of the world ’ s most isolated and fragile communities . “ We ’ ve grown from 30,000 pallets to 84,000 pallets over the last three years ,” Covell says .
JUNE 2019