We are so excited to announce Nectaly Vela, our first Cheryl Lamon Memorial Fund patient of 2022, is arriving next week, and we will need your help and support during his stay. Our…
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We have all seen images and read about how bad things are in India with the COVID resurgence. Central India Christian Mission (CICM), our partner in Damoh, has been particularly…
Melisa was a toddler when she fell into the open flames of a fire her family used for cooking. The next years of her childhood were defined by a constant…
Since our founding in 1991, LEAP Global Missions has faced many challenges in providing free specialized surgical services to those in need around the world. This year, we are faced…
I started with LEAP during my fellowship year. International medical work was already a key passion but a question of how and when. During fellowship, Dr. Hobar said the time…
In her four years as a volunteer nurse for LEAP, Vicki Wendling has been on nine missions to Zimbabwe, Haiti, Belize, and India. We were very excited for her to…
Dr. Mary Ellen Thurman is an anesthesiologist practicing in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s India trip was her first visit to India but her second trip with LEAP. Mary Ellen…
Dr. Latha Kampalath is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. When asked how many trips she has gone on with a LEAP volunteer in the past 15 years,…
Surgical tech Fred Moore has always felt a calling to help other people. Since he began volunteering, Fred has been to four trips to Haiti and one trip to Zimbabwe….