It’s a milestone for a Thunder Bay volunteer group that sends surplus medical supplies to communities in need.
Lori Owens is a longtime volunteer with Medical Equipment Modernization Opportunity, or MEMO, and helped packed up its 90th shipping container Saturday.
Owens says sending off each batch is “humbling and exciting” especially once they get feedback and pictures from the recipients.
“To see that just warms your heart, it gives you encouragement to see how it’s being used and lives are being touched in other countries,” she says.
This latest container is going to clinics and an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and founder Dr. Jerome Harvey says the shipping container itself will be turned into a dormitory once it’s emptied.
MEMO hopes to raise $17,000 later this month through a virtual fundraiser to send the shipment overseas.
The Christian organization was founded in Thunder Bay in 2005, and now receives supplies from supporters across Canada.