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Caribbean Medical Transport is a non-profit and non political humanitarian organization that sends medicine and medical equipment to Cuba and to  the Wider World.  We also promote  a wide variety of non medical activities.  We have enabled filmmakers and animal lovers and ecologists and even a Little League baseball team travel to Cuba to develop their projects.

  Our first container was sent to Santiago de Cuba in September of 2001. We've sent approximately 30 containers since then, mostly partnering with other organizations. These containers are typically 40' long, and might hold 20,000 pounds. So we have been involved, so far, in the transport of approximately 300 tons of donated medical equipment and other supplies. And recently, we have been picking up the pace!   Everything we do, is with the help of our many friends. 

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Classroom in Cuba- great teachers, great kids, no resources.

If you look over the main menu at the left, you'll see that our work is divided into Cuba projects and other projects in the rest of the world, concentrating in the Caribbean. This reflects the fact that we started in Cuba, and this is where our heart and soul remains. However, over the years we developed the skills to locate and distribute valuable and sometimes lifesaving supplies, and now we work with partners all over the Caribbean.  If you click on "the Wide World" you will be directed to other major shipments of humanitarian aid to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and even Kenya, and in the future we hope to expand these international efforts exponentially.

    The truth is that I personally am in love with many things about Cuba and do everything I can to help other people develop their own projects anywhere in Cuba and in the world. CMT exists to help good people accomplish their humanitarian projects, not  to get other people to help us accomplish our projects.

CMT  has a TRAVEL LICENSE that authorizes us to send qualified individuals to Cuba to help us do our work. We know of other licences that would work for  other people, so please contact us for advice if you have any desire to travel to Cuba legally.

The following basic principles seem to have served us well to date:

1) We are content to be a humanitarian aid organization. We believe life is the highest value, and therefore, the saving of life, or making lives more comfortable, is a sufficient objective. The individuals who work with us may have any political opinion they choose, with the understanding that our organization exists to do humanitarian work, not to support or oppose any government or any political point of view.

2) We do all of our work legally, openly, and transparently, with permits from the US Commerce Department, Treasury Department, and all appropriate permitting organizations in Cuba and in the Wider World.

3) We try, wherever possible, to send medicine and equipment to the more rural parts of the world,  since these are often the areas which need medicine and equipment the most.