Healing the Children

Healing the Children envisions a world where every child has access to medical care. --Healing the Children, Vision Statement

The challenge to provide health care to children has added uncertainty with a global recession shrinking the funds available to nonprofits and the changing healthcare system debated in the U.S.  With 30 years of making a way for kids to be able to see doctors, Healing the Children forges on.

Since 1979:

• in our International Inbound Program (bringing kids from abroad) we have helped 7,141 kids from 105 countries, speaking dozens of different languages.
• Our Medical/Surgical/Dental/Special Project teams that traveled abroad have served 147,644 on scores of team trips.
• Under our Domestic (U.S.) Program, 2,875 U.S. children have received free medical care or assistance.
• 33,912 U.S. children have been served by our Special Group Projects.
• That means, since 1979, 191,572 children have benefited from the generosity of our volunteer medical professionals, our hospitals, our host families, our donors and our countless other volunteers.
• In our Sustainability Program, we initiate and join with others on projects that create lasting medical assets and resources for all needy children within a geographical area.
• Each year we provide millions of dollars worth of gratis care on modest budgets.  For every $1 we spend, we deliver $27 worth of care.  (Source)

Healing the Children helped facilitate a recent surgery on an Afghan boy whose bladder formed on the outside of his body.  His mother petitioned Army Major Glenn Battschinger for help.

Thirteen American chapters and several International Partners remain committed to meeting the needs of children worldwide through teaching experiences in hospitals in developing nations, delivery of medical equipment, matching specialists to rare conditions, and even responding to mass catastrophes like Haiti's earthquake.