2024 Preview
Quick update to give you a preview of our 2024 journey back to Vietnam. In 2024 we will be part of the Surgical phase of the program. During this phase we will return to the poorest most remote areas of Vietnam with a team of specialty surgeons from Hanoi to perform surgery for the children. Because of the variety of conditions to address typically the team of specialist will include Orthopedics, Plastic, Optometrist and E&T surgeons. The Surgery phase takes place for 3 months (May-July) and the team performs 20-30 surgeries a day. I have been receiving photos from the team who are doing the surgeries now on the children we screened a few months ago. So nice to see photos of the children we meet getting these life changing procedures. Like the young boy Sang pictured below. These are photos of him before and after the cleft lip operation. In a few weeks he will have his sutures removed and with a few months of healing his lip w...