Canadian Association of Medical Teams AbroadLogo Design Contest

Health and Hope for a New Tomorrow

We are a team of volunteer health care professionals and lay people that help provide medical and surgical care to those in need in the developing world.

The same red as found in the Canadian flag. A deep royal blue would be the second colour.

Our website is www.camta.com. Our blog is www.camta.blogspot.com. Pictures from a mission can be viewed at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camta/sets/72157603877712488/

We wish to enhance capacity in the developing world in the course of providing healthcare. We work side by side with local health care providers. We leave behind both knowledge and equipment to help the local doctors and nurses continue to care after we return home. Most of all we desire to leave a renewed sense of hope in our patients. It is also important to note that we take along volunteers who are not medical people. They are students and translators and others who can help in many ways with our work. Mission participants have often stated they are changed forever by the grateful response of the patient's we help. And a goal of CAMTA is that our mission participants will return with us or with other organizations and continue to help others in the developing world for the rest of their lives.
One of our members has provided the following general comments:
- would a book somewhere in the logo suggest teaching, knowledge? CAMTA teaches as well as performs surgery during our missions.
- Is there any way to suggest that ultimately we want to be a multi-disciplinary team…ortho, plastics, obstetrics, family medicine…etc? Maybe a collection of symbols could imply this multidisciplinary concept:…crutches, hearts, syringes, books, prescription symbol, stethoscope, bandaids, tensor bandaids, BP cuff, clipboard, hospital sign pointing to CAMTA, etc?
- What about helping hands across the maple leaf – one hand reaching for another?
- What about stick figures – doctors/nurses/physios – stethoscopes/caps/clipboards around them?
- What about picking some medical symbols from above, putting them in a circle around the maple leaf (with the Symbol of Aesclepius in it) and writing CAMTA below?