The MESSAGE Program collects Medical, Dental, EMS, and Fire Equipment and supplies.  Donors include: Hospitals, fire departments, clinics, small businesses, corporations, private individuals, and non-profit and civic organizations.

 

Donations are collected in our Sauk Rapids Warehouse facility.  800 Industrial Drive Suite 206 Sauk Rapids, MN.  The space is donated by 
R.A Morton and Associates. 

 

 

Driver Al Kreuger volunteers his time and resources by providing the transport of donations to our warehouse.  Al is so wonderful he donates his services to other organizations as well. 

 

 

Volunteers sort, inventory, and pack the equipment and supplies on Pallets.

 

 

The pallets are then staged for container loading.

 

 

The donations are then transported by air, land, and sea to third world destinations.  40’ container donated by Maersk Sealand through Target Corporation.

  It takes approximately 20 pallets to fill a container.

 

 

 

The container is loaded full by packing in and around the medical equipment and supplies.  Food packs, linens, clothes and shoes are used as packing materials to protect and fill valuable space.

 

 

It is a great feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction for everyone involved to see the container loaded and the doors close.  Volunteer container driver Creed Carson pictured with driver Al Krueger.

Upon arrival the donations are unloaded and classified.

 

 

 

Guatemalan volunteers assist with unpacking.

 

 

 

Donations are gifted out to facilities that provide assistance to the poor including: Hospitals, clinics, fire stations, orphanages, nursing homes, and other smaller projects.  

 

Many individual lives are touched.  Fernando has made strides both physically and mentally since the gift of a walker.