#11 | Teresa Gray - The Hero Behind Mobile Medics International
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In Episode #11 of How We Change the World, lifetime humanitarian and CNN Hero of the Year finalist for 2022, Teresa Gray, shares her experience founding Mobile Medics International to serve the hard to reach and unserved victims of natural disasters and refugee crises.
Teresa and her volunteers have visited five continents and over thirty countries since starting the organization in 2017. When catastrophe strikes, they pack their gear and fly to search for "the need" not being met by other aid groups, wherever they are.
“Human suffering has no borders. People are people, mothers are mothers, fathers are fathers, and love is love.” -- Teresa Gray
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After thirty years working as a paramedic in a variety of settings including on SWAT teams, in medical helicopters, and in fixed-wing emergency aircraft that land in remote villages across Alaska, Teresa finally decided to semi-retire to spend more time at home with her two youngest children.
That plan changed in 2015 when Teresa saws news coverage of Syrian refugees suffering and dying as they tried to cross a narrow part of the Mediterranean to reach Greece. She knew she could help.
She quickly volunteered her medical expertise to an Irish NGO providing aid to refugees in Greece. After later helping in Haiti and the Philippines, Teresa formed Mobile Medics International to better reach hard-to-reach spots where larger NGOs didn’t venture. Now, Teresa and a handful of volunteers arrive with a mobile ambulance in their backpacks, dropping into far flung parts of the world where no expects help to show up.
Links to sites mentioned in this episode:
✨Mobile Medics International: https://www.mobilemedicsinternational.org
✨CNN Tribute: Teresa Gray: cnn.it/3LoL4tz
✨CNN: Mobile Medics Help Ukrainian Refuges: cnn.it/3Tk9M0m
✨CNN Heroes: Mobile Medics in Turkey's Earthquake Vone http://bit.ly/3JEZ15r
