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History & Structure
of the CAS Foundation
The CAS
Foundation was founded as a result of a small group of
businessmen, who had been involved in supporting both faith based
and secular missions since the
1970s, meeting to address the best
resolution to certain challenges faced.
One major challenge was the aspect of transportation costs involved
with transporting goods and personnel to areas that were not served
by major transportation hubs or that might have infrastructure that
possibly had been damaged in a disaster.
The class of ships that was chosen allows us to transport relief
supplies and personnel, while providing space for workers to eat and
live. It can also bring medical treatment and education facilities
with it wherever it goes. This type of ship also has the ability to self
unload, using its own onboard crane and thus eliminating the reliance on shore
support that might be damaged in the event of a disaster.
The
CAS Foundation is also becoming a clearing house for both
organizations that need supplies and organizations or donors that
have items to donate. This is done through our data base of users
and suppliers along with others that also provide some type of
transportation services.
To date, we have assisted in the shipment of supplies and items to
Africa, Bolivia, Mongolia, Poland, Fiji, Russia, a number of
Caribbean countries, Mexico, and Guatemala, to list a few. There have
been multiple shipments of medical supplies for a clinic that is
being started and to a children’s home that is supported by several
organizations.
One of the major mission organizations tells us that the cost of
transport is approximately 1/5th the cost of paying commercial
carriers to transport items to areas that do not have a major
shipping port. This is the central goal of CAS: to permit mission
funds to be maximized so that money can be focused on the core
mission rather than transportation costs.
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