New One-Minute Video for St. Louis HELP Showcases Nonprofit Recycling Mission

March 23, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri…A new one-minute video showcases the recycling mission of St. Louis HELP (http://www.stlhelp.org), the non-profit organization that freely loans home health equipment to people who need it.

“We are diverting about 140 tons per year that would otherwise end up in the solid waste stream,” says Laura Cannon-Singer, founder and executive director of the St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program.

The public service video produced by HEC-TV can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxddQ6VJcxs.

In 2014, St. Louis HELP loaned 6,193 items including hospital beds, wheelchairs, scooters, elevated toilet seats, lift chairs, walkers, crutches and other home health equipment that the group reconditioned. St. Louis HELP collected, cleaned and repaired the items before loaning them for free to people and families for as long as they need the equipment.

“We accept donations of nearly every type of home medical equipment in good working condition except oxygen and medications. For information or to donate used home health equipment, see our website http://www.stlhelp.org or call 314 567 4700.”

St. Louis HELP is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization headquartered at a warehouse in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette filled with donated wheelchairs, crutches, canes, beds and other devices that it cleans and reconditions. The organization is staffed almost entirely by volunteers.

“Our goals for 2015 are to be able to increase the number of people that we serve, sustain or increase the number of collection service hours at our warehouse and in-home collections, engage more volunteers and to divert more used home health equipment from landfills,” Cannon-Singer said.

Call 314 567 4700 or see the website http://www.stlhelp.org.

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