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True North Missions Society established its first medical mission to Ecuador in April, 2009. Our mandate is to conduct medical missions to impoverished people who normally would not have access to medical care in developing countries around the world, most currently in Ecuador, South America. Thank you for visiting our website.

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2025 Fundraiser

Our next dinner and silent auction fundraiser:
September 27th, 2025
Calgary Winter Club
4611-14 St NW
Calgary, AB T2K 1J7

Cocktails: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm

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Tickets: $150/ea:

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The 2025 Fundraiser Dinner was a huge success raising $32,544! A sincere thank you from True North Missions Society to all of the dedicated volunteers, donors and supporters.

All donations and fundraising proceeds
go to support our missions to Ecuador.

2025 Mission

Our True North Missions volunteers are off on another mission to Cuenca, Ecuador!

An amazing team of 40 volunteers has assembled to travel to Ecuador for the purpose of helping those in urgent need of hip surgery.

Thank you to all our supporters for their generous donations throughout the year making the mission possible.

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2025 Mission

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A little bit about where we started...

Our Society was established in 2009, however, we have traveled on several missions to Cuenca, Ecuador under the umbrella of an established charity organization in Edmonton, Alberta. frontpage_image_one[1] We are also a registered charity in good standing with Canada Revenue. In January of 2007, Dr. Jim Powell and Mrs. Gail Evans,ORT, traveled to Ecuador for the first time as part of a mission led by Dr. Tom Greidanus. Dr. Greidanus had been leading a mission to Cuenca, Ecuador for roughly 10 years at that point in time. The team had several components to the mission including providing total joint replacement of the hip and knee joint and dental care to some of the poor in Cuenca. Patients were identified by Dr. Manuel Avila in Cuenca. ...read more

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We encourage you to learn more about what we do by checking out our media page. Watch our YouTube feature, read news articles and browse through photos of our journeys. ...see more!