Colonel Monte Donard and his team of Traveling Colonels have partnered with Medical Missionaries since 2023. In this page we will share updates as we get them. You can support Traveling Colonels by donating to Medical Missionaries and dedicating to the Traveling Colonels. Or, you can donate directly via https://donorbox.org/travelingcolonels501c
Jan 30th, 2025 I admit now before everyone I did not scrub in on this procedure but we can say that Dr Yuri chief military medical officer/surgeon for the Zaporizhzhia area reports our sutures and laparoscopic grabbers were used during this procedure. Expert steady hands operating the instruments way it looks. Sutures from Door County, Dr Irwin, Medical Missionaries of Manassas VA and MedWish of Cleveland OH.
Image has graphic surgery.
Dec 5th, 2024 In late Oct Medical Missionaries donated coban tape and alcohol wipes to The Traveling Colonels. The supplies were shipped by sea container to Kyiv and today they are being sent to Ipren’ Hospital for trauma surgery use. It all helps. We had the supplies that were requested by the Ukrainian hospital Ipren’ -thanks to Dr Gil and Medical Missionaries. Colonel Monte, Kyiv
Dec 3rd, 2024: Really great collection of high quality tooth brushes and tooth paste from Medical Missionaries going to help soldiers that have been wounded and evacuated to the rear hospitals and major hospitals across Ukraine. Important supplies for their personal hygiene and mental health. Thank you!
Thanks to the volunteers who put time, energy and dollars into putting these hygiene dental care packs together. Well packed and super high quality toothpaste and brushes. Thanks Colonel Monte Kyiv. Shipping to wounded soldiers in Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Dec 2nd, 2024 Today we closed a deal with a left bank civilian hospital with 18 military members getting treated in the ophthalmology department. Seemed like roughly of the 10-12 soldiers we saw 1/3 to 1/2 were totally blind. Other soldiers lovingly acting many times as guides to the blind soldiers – the guides had a patch over one eye.
We delivered 6 boxes of ophthalmology surgical care items. FootPrint had sent us a box of eye surgery supplies, Chuck had miniature eye surgery instruments from MedWish, Steve had many items in his recent Door County boxes including calcium chips for facial bone reconstruction, Medical Missionaries of Manassas VA contributed gauzes and surgical gloves, Jan had sent eye patches which were eagerly scooped up as soon as I pulled them out to show the doctors. We even gave some brand new miniature scoops attached to a probe that we got off the 38 pallet deal from London- a very valuable instrument the surgeons commented.
I offered some extra plastic eye cup devices and our ophthalmologist about cried. They can’t buy them here -out of stock; we have 50 to give them.
I have never seen such a bazaar – head nurse in all blue scrubs was going over the surgical instruments with a fine tooth comb and looking up with a chee’ky smile and thumbs up- yes, GOOD! Nurse in all white went over all the instruments and kept 8 in her hands and had no intention of letting go of them. The surgeons and nurses both commented at least once or twice in astonishment that we had given them instruments they had only read about or seen at a trade show- but they knew exactly how to use the instruments. They requested more of a few things and said they couldn’t use 3 boxes of FootPrint’s devices – not because they were expired (2 yrs ago) but because it did not fit their machine, but they said they knew the exact hospital/ person who had this machine and could use all three boxes. Very valuable items!! Great day and great help to the soldiers, doctors and community.
Dec 1, 2024:
From our person who is passing the aid to the medics this morning. Your team in Manasass Medical Missionaries is helping.
Anya english is not her first language- “zero line” is the trench holding back russians
He’s the chief medic of the 37th Brigade and our battalion and he came with the vehicle from Line 0 directly to us to pick up your boxes. I promise you I have tears in my eyes. I asked him how he was doing but he’s not doing well at all. There are a lot of wounded and a lot of dead, a lot of dead and your equipment is really crucial and that’s why he came to pick it up. You are directly involved in saving lives on Line 0.
I wanted to know how much I put in boxing and just in the column and then I know how to do the rest and thank you very much today, it’s downright the armored vehicle that came from the front line to get your equipment, the front line has come closer to us.
They use this vehicle directly on line 0 and therefore it is not far from where we are and many injured every day dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens what you give as material helps to save lives.
Monte Dunard: I wanted to tell you this because it is very important that you know this and the ambulance will then evacuate the injured to less dangerous points.
Monte Dunard: What you sent as the first box, he told me it was one of the best materials he had received and here she is also very happy with what is inside. He will try to make a list when he has time but he is always evacuating the wounded and the dead.
Monte Dunard: But he comes every time to pick up the equipment from my house even if it’s a few boxes because a few boxes save and protect lives.
Nov 30th, 2024: Big shout out to Dr Irwin and everyone at Medical Missionaries. Great boxes of supplies from Manassas to Kyiv. Next stop stabilization points near the frontlines.
Nov 29th, 2024 Thanks to Defacto who helped with this project. We added her donated forceps to the 80 other specialized vascular surgical instruments we sent to the surgeon. We added 75 coagulator electronic surg instruments that he requested also.
The surgeon stated: “we are helping to save lives and save limbs. Thanks- I appreciate everyone who has helped us along the way the last 2 years- Nurse Anna, Chaplain, Kate the Canadian, Jezebel, FootPrint, Dylan, 3XR, Misneach Ireland, D. Vangaurd, Hanuska, Irish Dave UAD, Johnny Ukr Relief Fund, Pam, Ana McB of UK, Kaz, many others… it’s not just The Traveling Colonels. Thanks. We have a lot to be thankful for– Slava Ukrainii!
Nov 5th, 2024. Great support from Dr Gil and Medical Missionaries Manassas.
I collected these items in Northern Virginia about 6 weeks ago and shipped them to kyiv by sea freight. They have arrived just as the first snow and below freezing weather on 5 Nov 2024. The bag I just unpacked will be the basis for a larger box of supplies I am sending to a frontlines Stabilization Point this afternoon. Great support, timely, needed items- surgical gloves, gauzes, tape, wound care all needed as the Stab Points are short on supplies. Thanks. Colonel Monte, Kyiv
Nov 4th, 2024. Kyiv, Winter is coming!
I am sending out first aid kits and a few soldiers gift bags along with some extra socks Dr Gil of Medical Missionaries donated for Ukraine. Some nice hand made scarfs, hat and supplies to cheer up the somdiers and some dry socks. Thanks for the support. Colonel Monte
