Background of MedWish

So I figured I would give you a background of MedWish a.k.a. the tour Brooke and I had to give.

MedWish was started in 1993 by, Lee Ponsky, a urologist from UH. He got the idea while he was on a medical trip. His job was to fill latex gloves with water and see if they had any holes in them, if the gloves did he would have to patch them up before the doctors would reuse them. This really hit him hard because he knew that hospitals back home had so much they didn't use and these countries didn't even have enough as something as simple as gloves.

When he returned home Dr. Ponsky he and his brother started collecting supplies in his garage. When they built up he would take them to a church and send them on a missions trip.

In 2001 he hired his first employee and now is up to 6 full time employees and 2 part time. From 2006 MedWish only collected about 30,000 pounds of supplies to this year already have collected 500,000 pounds of supplies. Haiti was the first country that we got to send supplies to being a country in crisis. Since January 12th we have sent over 300,000 pounds of supplies.

MedWish sends supplies from a 40 foot cargo ship load to just a small box in someones luggage. They are not religiously affiliated at all and are a strictly non-profit organization.

Bonnie Speed Logistics picks up all the supplies that need to be delivered to MedWish because we do not have any means of picking them up. Everything that MedWish does is paid for by donors. It really is a great organization I am having a great time working there.