Save Our Supplies

Save Our Supplies (SOS) is a Queensland-based not-for-profit and registered charity that prevents clean, unused and viable medical supplies from going to landfill. We collect surplus items and small equipment from hospitals and healthcare providers—often discarded due to oversupply, asset write-off or strict expiry standards—and redirect them to health facilities across the Pacific. Our vision is that everyone has access to life-saving medical supplies, and our mission is to improve patient and health system outcomes in Pacific communities where resources are low or limited.

We are proud to achieve a genuine win–win: delivering essential medical goods such as dressings, gloves, surgical tools and protective equipment to clinics that need them, while significantly reducing medical waste in Australia, contributing to healthier individuals and communities across the Pacific with reduced preventable illness, and a circular healthcare economy which reduces Australia’s healthcare-related landfill footprint and carbon impact.

SOS sends over $1.2M worth of viable medical supplies each year to vulnerable communities in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Solomon Islands. Annually, this equates to approximately 20 tonnes of medical supplies diverted from Australian landfill. Funding will directly strengthen SOS’s capacity to collect, process and distribute a greater volume and range of medical supplies. It will support essential operational needs such as warehouse coordination, volunteer management, and quality assurance, ensuring that every donated item is safely and efficiently redirected. With this support, SOS can expand its reach to more Pacific clinics, deepen partnerships with Australian hospitals, and divert even more viable medical products from landfill.

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