Check out a few of our patient stories.
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QUITO, ECUADOR – Fall 2019
Our 2019 MMFC mission began with a warm welcome back from local partners, including our host for many years, the Fundación Tierra Nueva, Dr. Patricia Jarrín, Mary Kay Barrera, and…
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Guatemala – Spring 2019
Dr. Daniel Alam, a long-time Medical Missions for Children volunteer, has served as an inspiration to his daughter, Chloe. In anticipation of our 2019 mission, Chloe was inspired to set…
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Episode 3: ‘Spend a Minute’ with Charlie Badaoui
EP3: ‘Spend a Minute’ with Medical Missions for Children Dentist, Founding Member and Mission Volunteer Charlie Badaoui. Our volunteer team members travel to some of the most remote and underprivileged…
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Rwanda 2019: The Final Days
The last day in the hospital in Gitwe was certainly the most challenging in terms of surgeries. The team had four complex ones to start the day, with the last…
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Rwanda | 2019 Day 5
Today was the team’s second to last day here in Gitwe, and it proved to be a long but successful one, with seven more surgeries being completed over the course…
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Rwanda | 2019 Day 4
Tuesday was yet another successful day here in Gitwe with this year’s MMFC team. The day proceeded much like yesterday, with a total of seven surgeries completed, making our current…
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Rwanda | 2019 Day 3
March 11th, 2019Gitwe, Rwanda Day 3 in Gitwe proved to be our longest one yet. Beginning early in the morning, we started out with the first two surgeries lined up…
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Rwanda | 2019 Day 2
March 10th, 2019Gitwe, Rwanda Our second day in Rwanda began more ominously than the first, with thunderclouds rolling into Gitwe’s valley as we walked to the hospital in the early…
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Rwanda | 2019 Day 1
March 9th, 2019Gitwe, Rwanda This year’s Medical Missions For Children to Gitwe, Rwanda began with a good omen. Just moments after all twenty-one team members arrived at the hospital, a…
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Kigali | Rwanda, January 2019
On January 4th 2019, 13 volunteer healthcare professionals from across the US arrived at Kanombe Military Hospital in Kigali Rwanda with several large bags filled with medical equipment on behalf…
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Quito, Ecuador | October 2-8, 2018
MMFC celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Quito Mission at a ceremony attended by dignitaries and local partners in Quito during the October 2018 Mission. MMFC Co-Founders Dr. Rafael Barrera…
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Cambodia | 2018
Meet Mey, age 11, SreyNim, age 12, and Jonron, age 11. For these three beautiful children, life has been anything but all smiles. Members of the Cambodian Children’s Fund rescued…
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Cusco, Peru 2018 – Insight from a Volunteer
“Nada por la boca después de la medianoche,” I told parent after parent. “No food or drink after midnight.” My main goal during screening day as a volunteer was to make…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | May 2018
Medical teams from MMFC and the University of Nebraska arrived in Rwanda with two large vans filled with 17 volunteers and nearly 30 large suitcases of supplies and equipment. After…
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Cusco, Peru | August 2018
Communication: It is the way we navigate the world around us, interact with our friends, family and coworkers and express who we are. Communication could be something as profound as saying…
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Angeles City, Philippines | February 17-24, 2018
About The MMFC team comprised of doctors and nurses from Massachusetts, New York, California, Utah, and Hong Kong, arrived at Clark International Airport (formerly Clark AFB) the morning of Saturday…
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Quito, Ecuador | September 30 – October 8, 2017
About The Mission This year marked the nineteenth mission in Quito, Ecuador. The MMFC team saw a number of new patients as well as repeat patients for follow up surgeries.…
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Cuzco, Peru | July 31 – August 4, 2017
A beautiful smile, a loving heart and girl in need of help: Her name is Luz Ricardina Cabrera Sumari. We had the amazing opportunity to learn this little girl’s story…
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Guatemala II June 24 – July 1, 2017
Rios Carcamo, Thania Yeraldin Feliz Cumpleaños Thania She is back celebrating her third birthday as she undergoes surgery for palate repair. Each year, Thania has spent her birthday in the…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | June 8, 2017
OR Day 5! Today the team will finish up an amazing trip with 8 more thyroid surgeries on the schedule. More pictures to come as we pack up and say…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | June 7, 2017
Greetings from Gitwe in the Southern Province of Rwanda! All team members from various parts of the United States including Nebraska, Boston, Rochester, Michigan and Atlanta arrived in Gitwe after…
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Shenzen, China | May 2-8, 2017
Hospital Offers 40 Kids Free Cleft Lip, Palate Surgery—szdaily多媒体数字报刊平台 BY the end of today, 40 children from across the country will have undergone free cleft lip and palate surgeries at…
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Angeles City, Philippines | February 10 – 17, 2017
Day 1 – Blizzard/Arrival for Some/Screening: As the geographical dispersed MMFC team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, and non-medical volunteers converged on Angeles City, I was stuck in a Blizzard. I…
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Phalodi, India | January 29 – February 4th, 2017
Phalodi, India | January 29 – February 4 The MMFC team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, and non-medical volunteers from the U.S., Peru and Canada returned to Phalodi once again…
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Antigua, Guatemala | January 7 – 14, 2017
Antigua, Guatemala, 8 Enero (January) 2017 They come from far away, so many of the patients and their families; they are weary and perhaps afraid. They are in line and…
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Angeles City, Philippines | February 14th, 2016
Day 1 – Arrival The Boston contingency of Charlie Badaoui, Pacifico Tuason, Sandra Klein, Natalie Harris, Roberta Anslow, and Theresa Lynch, met at Logan at 10:30pm 2/10. Our flight to…
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Hope – Rwanda Thyroid Patient
For the first time in many years, Esperance can finally sleep without a large 3.6 pound ball crushing her esophagus. Her goiter has been growing in her neck for over…
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Gitwe, Rwanda Day Two
Monday was a great day of surgery for the doctors of MMFC. Although the need for cleft surgeries is low, Drs. Aric Park, Merry Sebelik, and Jeremiah Tracy were hard…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | October 6 – 16, 2016
Days 1 & 2 – Sat., October 8th and Sun., October 9th: After almost 24 hours of flying, we finally arrived in Kigali, Rwanda. This would not be our final…
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Antigua, Guatemala | June 25 – July 2, 2016
June 25-July 2, 2016: Our team of volunteer doctors, nurses, and administrators returned to Antigua for another week of cleft surgeries and dental care. By the end of the mission,…
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Mission Launched to Create a More Self-Sustainable Medical Industry in Rwanda
Massachusetts-based nonprofit, Medical Missions for Children, and the San Francisco-based Hellman Foundation have partnered to send Google Chromebooks to medical students at the new Medical College of the Institut Superieur Pedagogique de…
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Cajamarca, Peru | November 22 – December 1, 2013
From November 22-December 1, 2013, MMFC’s team of 18 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, speech pathologists, and administrators returned to Cajamarca, Peru for a week of cleft surgeries and dental care.…
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Tacloban City, Philippines | November 1-10, 2013
From November 1-10, 2013, MMFC sent a 15-person team of volunteers to Tacloban, located on the Leyte island of the Philippines. Working alongside the staff at the Eastern Visayas Regional…
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Quito, Ecuador | October 12 – 20, 2013
From October 12th to 20th, MMFC’s 26-person team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, and non-medical volunteers from the U.S. and England returned to Quito once again for its annual week-long…
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Guatamala II 2013
Sofia Zoullas is 16 years old and lives in New York City. She attends the Chapin school as an 11th grader, and this past June she got to do something…
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Cusco, Peru | 2013
Cusco, Peru is one of MMFC’s longest-running missions. This year, with Dr. Helen John-Kelly as the team leader, we returned from June 14th to 23rd with a 24 person team of doctors,…
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Rwanda Thyroid | 2013
Mary Beth Hagey is a docent for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a board member of a private foundation awarding scholarships to students demonstrating outstanding service in…
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Phalodi, Rajasthan, India | July 30 – August 9, 2015
About The Mission Nearly a decade ago, MMFC established a relationship with the Kalapurnam General Hospital after meeting its director, Dr. Kanti Jain. Since establishing a cleft lip and palate…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | March 15-21, 2015
A group of nine team members traveled on a long 24 hour journey to Rwanda, Africa. The group spent the next morning setting up the operating and recovery rooms while simultaneously triaging…
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Quito, Ecuador | October 18-26, 2014
This year marked the sixteenth mission in Quito, Ecuador. During the “sweet 16” mission, the MMFC team saw a number of new and repeat patients for follow up surgeries. They…
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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania | July 18-August 2, 2014
On July 18th the MMFC team of volunteer surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentist, and nurses headed to Tanzania for another two-week mission providing free cleft surgeries and dental care, working alongside the wonderful staff…
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Angeles City, Philippines | February 14-22, 2014
Roberta Anslow is an artist and professional photographer who has been volunteering with MMFC for several years now. She designs MMFC’s print and web based marketing materials, and coordinates our annual Marshfield…
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Antigua, Guatemala | January 5-10, 2014
For over a decade MMFC has been sending cleft, microtia, and dental teams to the Obras Sociales Hermano Pedro hospital in Antigua, Guatemala. The high demand for cleft surgeries in…
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Gitwe, Rwanda | March 15-21, 2014
Paul Christian Barrera is a writer and editor based in Oakland, California, currently at work on his first collection of prose. His creative work has been selected for publication by…
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Cajamarca, Peru | Nov 22 – Dec 1, 2013
From November 22-December 1, 2013, MMFC’s team of 18 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, speech pathologists, and administrators returned to Cajamarca, Peru for a week of cleft surgeries and dental care.…
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Tacloban City, Philippines|Nov 1-10, 2013
From November 1-10, 2013, MMFC sent a 15-person team of volunteers to Tacloban, located on the Leyte island of the Philippines. Working alongside the staff at the Eastern Visayas Regional…
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Danshui, China|Oct 25-Nov 2, 2013
From October 25-November 2, 2013, MMFC Chairman Dr. Dennis Snyder led MMFC’s third annual mission to Danshui, China. This is one of MMFC’s smallest teams, with just 7 doctors and…
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Quito, Ecuador|Oct 12-20, 2013
From October 12th to 20th, MMFC’s 26-person team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, and non-medical volunteers from the U.S. and England returned to Quito once again for its annual week-long…
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Guatemala II |Jun 22-29, 2013
Sofia Zoullas is 16 years old and lives in New York City. She attends the Chapin school as an 11th grader, and this past June she got to do something…
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