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The Moose Jaw International Medical Mission visits Guatemala each year to provide medical assistance to those in need in that country. Once again, fundraising efforts have begun to support its upcoming 2019 trip to Guatemala. This will be the fourth year the Medical Mission is traveling to Guatemala to provide medical support. The Medical Mission is a team of volunteer nurses and doctors who volunteer their skills to provide medical assistance to those who need it the most. The team of volunteers pay their own way for the trip but raise money throughout the year to provide surgical supplies and prescription medications to citizens of Guatemala. The Medical Mission will be hosting the first of several fundraisers to come, starting on Saturday, July 28 when they will have the Gardens for Guatemala self-guide tour. The tour will be from 10am to 3pm. Jackie Wilson, coordinator for the Mission says this event will allow persons to tour some of the most beautiful gardens around Moose Jaw. “This is our first time doing Gardens for Guatemala. The budget to go is about $40,000 that we have to raise over the course of the year. All our volunteers on the team pay their own way there. The money we raise is to cover the cost of all our surgical supplies and medications,” Wilson said. “What we do is that we take a team of medical professionals to Guatemala each year. In February 2019, it will be our 4th trip going there. We work at a little hospital there where we cater to persons’ medical needs. That’s what we raise the funds for to take surgical and medical supplies there to carry out our mission. Gardens for Guatemala is one of our fundraisers that we we’re going to have,” she added. Tickets for Gardens to Guatemala are $25 and can be purchased at Ellen’s on Main and Hudson’s Boutique. You can also call Melissa at 306630-9705 or Maggie at 306-750-2002 for tickets and more information on the event. “Once you get
your tickets, you’ll also receive a map of some of the beautiful gardens that persons have allowed us to tour. These are private gardens that persons will be touring—a self-guide tour around the city of some of Moose Jaw’s most beautiful gardens,” noted Wilson. Wilson says on their 2018 trip in February, they were able to see over 600 patients. “The trip was incredible. We were able to see about 600 patients with our medical team and we were able to do 35 different surgical cases. The people we worked with were suffering for a long time without proper medical care and so when we can show up there and offer them a chance to be healthy again, they are extremely appreciative and they’re thankful that we would take time out of our lives to go there and provide this service. It is rewarding and we learn a lot from them.” Wilson added that the team is always looking for more sponsors and businesses to support the Mission. Persons/local businesses can contact the Moose Jaw International Medical Mission for more details if they would like to become sponsors. “We always welcome more sponsors and businesses to support our Mission. We are definitely looking for more corporate sponsors for our team. On our upcoming trip, this will be the first year that we’re going to be takin a team to do health promotion as well; we have a team of handy men/women who will be accompanying us to install safe and efficient stoves and water filters into some of the locals’ homes so we welcome any corporate sponsorship.” For more information, visit the Moose Jaw International Medical Mission at https://www.facebook.com/ events/2076686052608111/?ti=icl.
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