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Causes: Environment, Health, Health Support, International, International Relief, Recycling
Mission: Founded in 1993, medwish international is a not-for-profit organization that saves lives and the environment by repurposing discarded medical supplies and equipment to provide humanitarian aid in developing countries.
Programs: Humanitarian aid shipments from medwish international bridge the gap between abundance and absence, surplus and scarcity. Working with a range of healthcare providers, companies and individuals to recover medical surplus they can no longer use, medwish repurposes millions of pounds of medical supplies and equipment, keeping these lifesaving items out of american landfills and putting them in the hands of people in need worldwide, regardless of religion, politics, cause or nation. In 2016, 186 medwish shipments provided help and hope to people in 41 countries.