Four-month-old Tenaka arrived for patient evaluation today. We soon learned his mother and aunt traveled 200 miles over two days, taking several buses to finally arrive at Harare Children’s Hospital….
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Story by Laylee Ghafar, Medical Student and LEAP Haiti Team Member In April 2015, one-year-old Christene and her mother were first evaluated by LEAP in Haiti. Born with a condition known as…
Last November, a 15-year-old boy named Weder came to see our team hoping for medical care for a large ear mass that had grown larger over the past few years…
It was a community effort in Haiti to help put all of the pieces in place for Dieulnson, baby D, who first came to see our LEAP team in November…
Story by Jennifer Francis, LEAP Haiti Team Member Laurene P. is a six-year-old who came for pre-operative evaluation by our team in Haiti, hoping for surgical repair of her facial…
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a nurse. Growing up in a family of healthcare providers, you could say it was in my blood!…
Six years ago, while on one of his annual trips to Belize with the LEAP Foundation, Dr. Grant Gilliland evaluated a little eight-month-old girl who had something wrong with one…
Two weeks ago, we shared with you the story of a woman named Andi (name has been changed), who was viciously attacked by an assailant with acid and subsequently received…
Ramvishal and his mother, Radha, were both born with a cleft lip. When Radha was an infant at age one, her parents had her unilateral cleft repaired in Central India….
Raj is a 7-month-old sweet baby with a bilateral cleft lip who came to be evaluated by the LEAP team with his mother, father and sisters. Raj also has Down’s…