Who We Are: A Volunteer-Based Organization
Outside of a few permanent staff, our entire workforce is made up of volunteers. Here in the United States, we are blessed with wealth, time, and tools that can change the lives of people in other countries. It is both our responsibility and our privilege to use our advantages to aid those in need, and IMEC is the bridge that carries our efforts across the world.
Volunteers bring an accumulation of skills and knowledge to our mission, from corporate service teams that spend a Saturday assembling pallets with the components from the Operating Room pick sheet, to the medical professionals who create the lists. This generous donation of time, effort, and expertise allow us to efficiently and effectively carry out all aspects of our mission. Experienced volunteers perform in-country hospital assessments and acquire needed medical equipment. Any necessary repairs to the equipment are done by volunteers who bring skill sets that include sewing, electronics, or the simple willingness to clean the marks of previous use. Volunteers perform the final packaging and shipping, down to the last act of loading the pallets by forklift into shipping containers destined for impoverished hospitals worldwide.
More than 90% of the work we do is done by volunteers.