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UMCOR also assembles relief supplies into six different kits that are sent around the world. Kits include bedding, cleaning supplies, health kits, layette kits for post-childbirth, school kits, and sewing kits. [4] UMCOR operates two supply depots, the UMCOR Sager Brown depot in Baldwin, Louisiana and UMCOR Depot West in Salt Lake City, Utah. [5]
Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.
It first acquired American Sanitary or AmSan in May 2006 for $127.5 million along with AmSan's own line of products called Renown. Renown has base products such as toilet paper, paper towels, brooms, and cleaning agents. In the 1990s AmSan became a conglomerate by buying 44 independent janitor and sanitary distributors.
A first aid kit or medical kit is a collection of supplies and equipment used to give immediate medical treatment, primarily to treat injuries and other mild or moderate medical conditions. There is a wide variation in the contents of first aid kits based on the knowledge and experience of those putting it together, the differing first aid ...
The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War.
This category contains articles related to the United States Sanitary Commission, a United States Government agency created by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of bathroom fixtures. It was formed in 1875 by the merger of the Ahrens and Ott Manufacturing Company, the Standard Manufacturing Company, the Dawes and Myler Manufacturing Company, and six other plants which were consolidated to form the Standard Manufacturing Company ...
A "Sanitary Bazaar" was held in Indianapolis as part of the Indiana State Fair in October 1864. [10] Upon the announcement of the fair, Lucinda Burbank Morton (wife of Indiana's Republican Governor, Oliver P. Morton) published an appeal, calling for "patriotic" women in Indiana to contribute money and items to the fair. [11]