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We completed another rewarding project with Coptic Mission. Together, we filled a 40ft container with usable medical equipment and supplies valued at $290k and saved almost 50m3 from the landfill.

We are thrilled! Today, we received 70 shower seats and 4 hospitals beds for children. A big thank you to Campbelltown Hospital for this incredible donation and for preventing more

Last week, we received a donation of multiple essential medical items that not only allowed us save almost 100kg from the landfill but will also help improve the lives of

Last month, we had the rewarding opportunity to partner with another like-minded charity, OpBlue. OpBlue, a humanitarian aid organisation, is dedicated to building sustainable communities in Africa through education, clean

Over the past few weeks, MedEarth has saved 100kg and almost 2m3 of medical supplies and equipment from the landfill. A big shoutout to our amazing donors for their contributions

Last week, we saved almost 1.5ms cubic meter and 120 kilograms of items from going to the landfill. Special thanks to Eva Giufre who recently lost her 94-year-old father George

Mid North Coast Police District, Kempsey Police Station found three large boxes full of unused, good quality medical supplies on a property where the owner could not be identified. Instead

So fantastic that we have already saved almost 30kg of medical items from landfill by mid week already. Every kilo counts. Many thanks to St Vincent’s Environmental Services, Dr Justyn

Just last week, we saved 1 cubic meter and 75 kilograms of medical items from going to the landfill. Thank you so much to our donors Dr Justyn Huang, The

What a fulfilling Wednesday it was at the MedEarth warehouse! We organized a corporate volunteering day event and welcomed 10 volunteers from PharmaLex, a leading global healthcare company specializing in

These mobility aid items have been donated by Mel Rubin after her recovery from an ankle injury. We would like to extend a big thank you to Mel for her

We have received a donation of 24 surgical stretchers and have saved 4,560kg from ending up in the landfill. Many thanks to Crescent Healthcare, not only for this generous donation,

Last week, our volunteers, board members, and staff packed 20m3 of essential medical supplies and equipment at the MedEarth warehouse for Carers of Africa in Zambia. Our donation included 1

We received a very special donation yesterday and we are extremely grateful to George Bass School that provides high-quality learning programs for students in years K-12 with an intellectual disability,

We ended February with amazing donations, saving almost 1,200kg and 10m3 of usable medical items from landfill. 1 laser machine 4 medication trolleys 4 bed frames 1 blood pressure monitor

We kicked off the year by receiving many invaluable donations. Thanks to the generosity of Prince of Wales Private Hospital, we have been able to save almost 600kg of items

Another rewarding Sunday at the MedEarth warehouse! We donated lifesaving medical supplies and equipment including 1 ultrasound machine, 6 defibrillators, 1 microscope and 1 air purifier to Alpha Polyclinic, a

What a rewarding and fun Sunday we had at our warehouse! We donated 10m3 of medical supplies and equipment including 1 ultrasound machine, 5 defibrillators, 2 walkers, 3 wheelchairs, 2

Australian B-corp and sustainable packaging enterprise, BioPak has today announced a newpartnership with not-for-profit organisation MedEarth, an Australian charity that recovers andredistributes life-changing medical supplies and equipment to disadvantaged communities

We are incredibly grateful to have received 4 Toshiba Aplio ultrasound machines that were generously donated to MedEarth! These machines will transform lives of many individuals living in disadvantaged communities.

A devastating 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains on 8 September 2023, causing thousands of deaths and injuries. Marrakesh, the most populous city in the region, was affected the

Saved more than 600kg from landfill. 3 ICU beds and 11 defibrillators! Thank you so much to St Vincent’s Private Hospital for this incredible donation which makes a huge positive

The Dalai Lama said “It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live”. What a fulfilling and rewarding day for

We are continually receiving amazing donations from hospitals, medical practices, and individuals. Your donations will make a significant impact on under-resourced communities and change many lives. Your support is invaluable

These essential medical items such as needles, dressings, feeding tubes, catheters, cannulas were donated to MedEarth for helping less advantaged communities all around the world. Each year, MedEarth saves a

Saved another 30kg from landfill. Many thanks to Environmental Services at St Vincent’s Public Hospital Sydney. We always your appreciate donations! Thank you for helping us help others

We donated 9 boxes of life-saving medical supplies to Alpha Polyclinic in Burundi. Alpha Polyclinic is a charity that supports disadvantaged communities in rural areas by providing clothing, medical equipment

Saved 6 boxes of medical supplies and a microscope from going to landfill, weighing almost 50kg! Big thanks to Nepean Hospital for their ongoing support of our mission. Our projects

Last Friday, we had a very productive first distribution day at our new warehouse. We packed an impressive 15m3 of medical equipment and supplies, including theatre beds, an autoclave, recliners,

MedEarth continues helping less privileged communities all around the world. Last week, we completed another project for Zambia with the collaboration with carersofafrica . We packed more than 13m3, almost

What a rewarding long weekend at the MedEarth Warehouse! Last Saturday in collaboration with the Australian Charity, Fesidev Australia, we packed 4m3 of essential medical equipment and supplies including 2

SAVED almost 1000kg, 7m3 from landfill over a week. Many thanks to Balmain Village Health, Burwood Endoscopy Centre, Dr Justyn Huang, St Vincent’s Environmental Services, St Vincent’s Centre for Applied

“ONLY ONE EARTH“ was the slogan of the first Word Environment Day observed on June 5th, 1973. Today, we celebrate its 50th anniversary. HAPPY WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY! Medical waste has

Saved another 150kg from landfill. Did you know that one hospital bed weighs between 140kgs and 180kgs!? To date we have saved more than 200 beds weighing a total of

Last week, our director Laura Taitz had a meeting with Jodie Moore a nurse educator within the Nursing Education & Research Unit from Prince of Whales Hospital to discuss how

This week at Medearth we’ve recovered a massive total of 755kg of medical equipment otherwise destined to landfill. Thank you to Stryker Medical & Genea IVF Sydney and Bella Vista

We had a very busy week at the MedEarth warehouse. In response to the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria , MedEarth together with smartAID and Turkish Consulate General, The

Last week we were all saddened by the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. Tens of thousands of people confirmed dead, thousands of buildings collapsed, and hundreds of thousands of

Saved 33 kilograms (0.6m3) from landfill. Thank you so much to Environmental Services, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Sydney, St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research / Translational Research Centre and

We have started off the year by already receiving many donations of equipment & supplies. We saved 300+ kilograms from landfill in January!! Thank you so much to Sydney Children’s

What a fantastic year 2022 has been! We have so much to celebrate and be grateful for. We redistributed recovered medical items (otherwise destined for landfill) weighing 17tonnes, with a

Great way to end the year! We packed a 20FT container full with medical equipment, furniture and supplies for OUR BABY HOSPITAL, maternal, child and family health hospital in Nigeria.

Another container full with medical supplies and equipment reached its destination Hope Clinic Uganda where it’s going to impact many lives in the Kampla community in Uganda. Many thanks to

MedEarth donated 7 boxes of essential medical supplies to Ukraine! These supplies will give some relief to those who have been enduring the tragic war since February. We are so

Thank you so much to the final-year medical students from the Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney for this donation. It’s wonderful to see young generations care about global issues

We’ve just donated 6 oxygen concentrators to St Joseph’s Provincial Hospital and Nursing School, Lumezi, East Zambia. These much needed concentrators will be primarily used for neonatal resuscitation, asthma &

MedEarth has recently received 6 pallets of wrist, ankle and knee support products from United Pacific Industries (UPI), Thermoskin Braces and Supports. Thank you so much for this incredible donation!

Another shipment done and dusted for Hope Medical Clinic in Uganda! This is our 4th project together with FESIDEV Australia. This time we donated another ultrasound machine, 1 x dialysis

What a rewarding Sunday at the MedEarth warehouse. We packed a 40ft container full with essential medical equipment and supplies (such as hospital beds, eye examnination equipment, anaesthetic machine, ventilator

So honoured to have received a Certificate of Appreciation by The High Commission and Consulate General of the Kingdom of Tonga in Australia, in a special ceremony last week in

So glad to have teamed up again with smartAID on this timely project. We packed 62 boxes full with essential medical supplies (such as face masks, face shields, PPE, syringes,

So satisfying to have packed another 40ft container with our amazing volunteers before this challenging year ends. This time we packed for Hope Clinic Uganda. This is our 3rd project

So grateful to be back to the warehouse with our amazing volunteers after a long lockdown to pack a 20FT container for Hope Clinic Zimbabwe. We teamed up with FESIDEV

What an joyful contribution from MedEarth! Many thanks to Allison Cairns, the co-founder of Animal Rescue Cooperative (ARC) for asking us be part of this meaningful project. @animalrescuecooperative ARC is

Life saving ventilators and generously donated medical equipment bringing the capacity to 5 nationally for Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste put out a call for desperately needed ventilators and Maggie Patterson, founder of

Another successful MedEarth mission completed. Our shipment of 15 boxes of essential supplies and consumables to Fiji via the FijiOz project is on its way to Dr Mili and the

Shipment number 2 is on it’s way to Timor-Leste, the youngest and one of the poorest countries in Asia. We have sent vital medical supplies and equipment including Personal Protective

Loxley Health, in partnership with the Australian Government Department of Health, has set up a temporary respiratory clinic in Sydney’s inner west to reduce the load on GP practices and

Over the last 2 weeks MedEarth and groups of teenage volunteers have been preparing a shipment of vital medical supplies and equipment for the upcoming Papua New Guinea 2020 –

Today we were able to help Sayo L. B. Dukuly get one step closer to his dream of creating a thirty-bedded mental health center/facility inLiberia to cater for those suffering

This month MedEarth has shipped Dinamap V100 Vital Signs monitor (value of AU$4K), cervical collar and 3 stiff neck collars to an emergency medicine training symposium in the Democratic Republic

This month MedEarth shipped Mindray WATO EX-30 Anaesthesia Machine (value AU$28.7K) to DAISI Doctors Assisting In South-Pacific Islands. This machine will be sent to Sopas District Hospital in The Highlands,

Last Sunday we packed a container going to Timor-Leste, this shipment included $300k worth of X-ray equipment, which was generously donated by Maia Financial. It will be the second X-ray

Maia Financial partners with MedEarth to deliver medical equipment to developing countries Repurposing medical equipment into 3rd world countries is the focus of Maia Financial’s partnership with MedEarth. This initiative

7 weeks ago we packed 2 x 40 foot containers for the Eastern Cancer Care Hospice in Sri Lanka. We are so please to be able to share that as

Over many months MedEarth recovered medical items for the upcoming shipment to Liberia. These items will be shipped to the Medicover Health Centre and the Mental Health Rehabilitation project in

In June, we had the pleasure assisting the Clean Water Drop organisation to fill 3 trucks with over 1,300 medical supplies and equipment. We loaded items such as hospital beds, mattresses,

Adult & paediatric masks and syringes were packed and collected by handupcongo (https://www.handupcongo.org) for their October medicine training trip.

MedEarth packed and distributed boxes of recovered medical supplies desperately needed by Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi. MedEarth welcomes the opportunity to work again with Lesley Sutton to improve

MedEarth has assisted the Rural Empowerment Action for Community Healthcare (REACH) project in Burundi by providing much needed and life saving medical equipment and supplies. 10 hospital beds, 2 birthing

11 palettes consisting of 150 cartons totalling 2160kg of much needed unused stoma therapy supplies that were saved from landfill by MedEarth have arrived at Calsto Care in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. These stoma therapy supplies greatly improve

2017 ended with over 20 volunteers packing a 40 foot container for Doctors Assisting In South-Pacific Islands bound for Kilu’ Ufi hospital, Auki, Malaita, Solomon Islands. The shipment included medical

In February MedEarth volunteers packed a 40 foot container with medical items recovered by MedEarth from various hospitals in Sydney. This was a project of Lesley Sutton’s with MAFO (Medical

The trolleys, anaesthetic machine and the hospital equipment used in the GIZO Hospital shown in the video below were recovered and donated by MedEarth.

The shipping container being unloaded by DAISI in NRH & GIZO.

George Tora, the hospital secretary at Helena Goldie Hospital in Munda, Solomon Islands has written a letter of thanks to the directors of MedEarth for the life saving equipment shipped to them

The MedEarth recovered and donated operating table, diathermy and anaesthetic machine are being put to use, to save lives in the HELENA GOLDIE HOSPITAL, MUNDA

1 Million Women have posted a blog about MedEarth making an impact to the environment and to thousands of lives.

Doctors Assisting in Solomon Islands (DAISI), working with MAFO (Medical Aid for Oceania and Worldwide) and its principal club the Rotary Club of Berrima District Inc who took responsibility for

MedEarth recently packed a 20 foot container with four anaesthetic machines and various other recovered medical equipment and supplies for FijiOz to send to Nadi hospital in Fiji. The response

A Youth With A Mission (YWAM) medical ship being refurbished for a lifesaving voyage to Papua New Guinea (PNG) has received one of five anaesthetic machines that have been saved