Cascade Medical Team

12/31/2025

Each year, the journey to healing for our patients in Guatemala begins long before they reach our mission site. HELPS, our year-round partner, works with local doctors and community leaders to identify people living with painful, disabling conditions—often for years—without access to care.

Once identified, patients begin a long but hopeful journey from remote mountain villages, rising before dawn to travel up to five hours by bus. Many arrive exhausted and anxious, some entering a medical facility for the first time. CMT volunteers welcome them with compassion and provide life-changing surgery. They return home carrying relief, gratitude, and hope.

Your support makes healing possible, again, in 2026.

Please donate through our website: cascademedicalteam.org

12/29/2025

In 2025, with two stove teams, in March and November, Cascade Medical Team installed stoves and water filters in 288 homes and an institutional stove and 10 water filters in a community school. This work has changed the lives of approximately 2,016 men, women and children in homes and 112 students and staff at the community school. Smoke free environments and safety from open fires are a thing of the past. These stoves will save nearly 3,500 trees a year for the life of the stoves and save families buying wood 70% of their wood budget.

Our March stove team had a special visitor while working at the community school. The previous year, the team installed a stove in Hilda’s house, while she was pregnant and very sick. Seeing that she could not keep any food or liquids down, the stove team got her to our medical team where she was treated. Now, a year later, Hilda came back to show us her healthy baby boy, Hugo, and to express her gratitude, for not only the stove, but for “saving her life”, as she put it.

Please support this life changing work through your donations on our website www.cascademedicalteam.org

12/27/2025

2025 Impact Report - Help spread the good news!

Hello Friends of Cascade Medical Team:

As this year closes, here's something positive and uplifting to share. Will you help us get the word out about the impact of the work our team did this year with our neighbors in Guatemala.

Please forward this post to everyone you know that has gone on a mission, and to your friends and your family who has supported your work on the team.

CASCADE MEDICAL TEAM 2025 IMPACT
(1 medical team plus 2 stove teams)

Lives impacted: 2856 *(based on an average 7-person household)
Surgeries: 104
Stoves & Water Filters: 299 in homes and schools
CMT Volunteers: 125

To keep this work going, please donate through our website: www.cascademedicalteam.org today.

Our mission is providing free healthcare and health education—where medical services are severely lacking—along with supporting community development projects to the impoverished population in the Highlands of Guatemala. Our passion is changing lives. Whether you are a health professional, stude...

11/19/2025

For those in Oregon:
“Twice a year Bottle Drop (Blue Bags and Green Bags) offers a 20% increase for funds raised during a specific time frame. This year it is November 15- Dec. 2. Please encourage friends and family to donate! We have raised over $1800 this year so far.
Process- donate Blue bags between 11/15- 12/2/25 or donate from your personal Green Bag account to CMT during those dates.”

03/12/2025

Today most of the team is on their way home from Guatemala. Lots of stories to tell. Here's one from the stove team:

This is a photo of the 2025 stove team with Hilda, in red. She sought out our team at our school visit hoping to find “Taylor”. She was the pregnant women our team found in the community last year 8 months pregnant and very very ill, not able to keep down food or liquids. One of our stovers, Taylor Ladd, an EMT from Seattle, and his fellow stovers brought her to the hospital site where she was stabilized and treated. A month later she delivered a healthy baby boy, Hugo, and wanted to thank the team for “saving her life”. She took time off work to find our stove team and asked to have her picture taken together! Taylor was not on our team this year but we contacted him by phone to give him her message of great gratitude for the help he and his teammates provided her.

03/09/2025

For locals in the Eugene-Springfield area, we can get increased support for our Bottle Drop campaign April 15-26 for Earth Week Please fill up those blue bags!

Anyone can contribute to our work on our website.

Thank you!!

03/09/2025

We just wrapped the 2025 medical mission. More details to follow, but this gives an idea of what it takes to set up and run a mobile hospital. Our dedicated volunteers tirelessly served our Guatemalan neighbors in the Quiche region.

11/18/2024

FOR THOSE IN LANE COUNTY - PLEASE READ:
If you want to participate, let the team leaders know and Sarah can arrange for you to get bags.

Thank you for registering your nonprofit for this year’s Holiday Give! Did you know that today is National Recycling Day? This also marks the official start of our 2024 Holiday Give event, which runs through December 2.

All funds raised through BottleDrop (via Blue Bags or online donations from Green Bag accounts) will receive a 20% match. We’ll calculate the total amount your organization raised from November 15 – December 2, and then will add the 20% bonus in one lump sum to your account after the campaign ends. We will notify you via this email address when your matching funds have been added, no later than December 30.

We also encourage you to enter our social media contest and share how your organization uses funds raised through BottleDrop! On weekdays throughout the campaign, except for Thanksgiving Day, we’ll select a total of 50 lucky winners to each receive a $100 prize. If your organization is
a winner, we will comment on your winning post and deposit prize funds into your account the same day.

We’re also looking for feedback on what motivates your network to donate via BottleDrop! Please share this short feedback form with your supporters and encourage them to share their thoughts with us.

Have questions about Holiday Give? Check out our Holiday Give page for full details, and be sure to check out our most Frequently Asked Questions. If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to [email protected].

We hope this is your most successful Holiday Give yet!

Warm regard

10/15/2024

Docs and Ducks annual fundraiser Oct 19th in Eugene, Oregon. Please support our mission either in person or on the CMT website.

Big thanks for the dedicated Board members and volunteers who make this happen.

GO DUCKS!!!

09/01/2024

The nationally (in Guatemala) recognized Comadrona project.

Here is a history of service Cascade Medical Teams has done over the years, as written by Sue Trezona, one of our pillars in this work:

We started doing the Midwife training in 2010. Since that time we have trained over 250 indigenous midwives that have not had any formal training. Learn from their mothers or their aunts. We focus on how to recognize emergency situations such as resuscitation, hemorrhage, and went to recognize emergencies that need to be transported to the hospital. We always try to incorporate their customs into our training. We also give them a birth pack that consist of everything they would need to go to a birth. These births are always at home.

Way to go Sue and the other outstanding professionals that go with us!!!

07/29/2024

The transition is complete. In 2024, Robert and Tamra Orlando, the long time leaders, officially passed the baton to Craig Peck and Sarah Jane Peterson.

Craig and Sarah have the support of the CMT Board with over 120 trips' combined experience to assure the continuity of a quality experience for our participants and especially the Guatemalans that we serve and work with.

Thank you for your selfless service, Robert and Tamra, and much gratitude to Craig and Sarah for stepping up.

05/26/2024

Care to join us? See our website: cascademedicalteam.org for more information and to apply