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MMC helps out during COVID-19 Pandemic

It has been a particularly challenging time, with the spread of COVID-19 across the globe, affecting everyone in one way or another. With travel restrictions put in place due to the pandemic and the nature of the virus and its high infection rate, MMC was forced to cancel scheduled development project trips to Ukraine. Nor were visits made to those projects located along the India/Myanmar and Thai/Myanmar borders this year. However, MMC has been coming up with ways to ensure the health and safety of its international projects even though they have not been able to travel, as well as to help out locally.

Earlier in the year, MMC was able to send thousands of PPE to affected areas in Ukraine in the form of surgical masks, exam/sterile glove, and isolation gowns. The items came at a crucial point just before the pandemic hit hard in these areas and have been a huge help since.
Locally, MMC has been committed to carrying out its longtime mandate of helping the most marginalized populations. We’ve been supporting agencies that work with groups and individuals who have lived experience with homelessness, disabilities, and other health and welfare challenges. When supplies were low in our city during the early days of the pandemic, we provided PPE, including nearly 40,000 surgical masks, to support agencies who were in urgent need. With the help we have provided abroad and locally we have exhausted the supplies in our warehouse.

MMC extends a huge thank you to our donors and volunteers who helped make all of this possible, and a special thanks to the essential workers who put themselves out there every day. We also give thanks to the Calgary community in doing their part to curb the spread and stay safe during these trying times.
In spite of all your greatly appreciated support the regions where MMC have development projects still need assistance and we are committed to putting funds to the best of use. We understand that these are incredibly difficult times for everyone. However, any help you can provide is vital to MMC and, more importantly, those we assist locally and abroad.

MMC Sea-Can Project

While MMC was not able to visit the regions in which they have development projects in during 2020, they still did their best to help out from back home. One of the ways that MMC helped their Ukraine projects, was shipping a Sea-Can container over to Ukraine filled with medical supplies the regions desperately needed. Below is a video you can watch about this project and how MMC got it done.

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