Thursday (Oct. 13) from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Northwest Medical Teams will load nearly $2.5 million in medical supplies bound for earthquake-ravaged Pakistan. The 10 pallets of medicines will be trucked from our headquarters to a Tacoma port.
Northwest Medical Teams veteran volunteer Dr. Tom Martin leads a team of four volunteers to Guatemala this week. The team will partner with Mercy Corps relief workers and CARE in the region to help victims of Hurricane Stan. A shipment of $943,000 also leaves earlier in the day (10 a.m. load time) for Guatemala.
Dr. Martin has served in Afghanistan, Liberia, and Mozambique. He will be available for interviews from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday while our medicines are being loaded.