Scripps Mercy Volunteer Group Raises $250,000 for Humanitarian Missions

The Scripps Mercy Outreach Surgical Team (M.O.S.T.) now in its 30th year, raised a record $250,000 at its sixth annual Mariachi Festival at Humphreys by the Bay to help fund its humanitarian missions to aid children in Mexico. The volunteer medical team provides free corrective surgeries to children with birth defects or other disfiguring conditions.

The San Diego Magazine report, "San Diego Charity News," is not available at this time.

View the coverage in the San Diego Business Journal (subscription): Festival Helps Surgical Team Go the Extra Mile and Help.

At the Mariachi Festival, organizers screened a video of M.O.S.T.'s most recent mission to Morelia, in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

For more information about M.O.S.T., please visit: Mercy Outreach Surgical Team: Changing Lives in Mexico.

View the M.O.S.T. video: