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Reconstructive Surgery
Transforms Lives

Every two seconds someone dies from a surgically preventable disease.

Together, we can solve this crisis. At ReSurge International, we build access to life-changing surgeries in low-income countries through training local surgeons and providing free reconstructive surgical care.

Patients Impacted in 2025
10000
Medical Professionals Trained in 2025
0
Cost of Care to a ReSurge Patient
$ 1000

How It Works

Your donation gives patients in need a second chance at life.

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ReSurge receives a donation.

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We train and support local surgical teams to serve their communities.

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We provide free surgical care to low-income patients across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
For every $1 invested in surgical capacity, $10 is gained in productivity.

Why Reconstructive Surgery?

Surgically treatable conditions kill more people than Tuberculosis, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS combined.

There is a global shortage of reconstructive surgeons.

People in low-income countries suffer the most.

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ReSurge is  to Reconstructive Surgery ►

ReSurge International is a global nonprofit founded in 1969 that trains local reconstructive surgical teams in low-income countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Reconstructive surgery restores function after burns, trauma injuries, cleft lips and palates, missing digits, and cancer — all provided free to patients who could not otherwise afford care. One surgeon we train can impact over 400,000 lives through the ripple effect of training.

Transform lives like
Luz’s everyday

Luz was born without a thumb in her left hand or a radius bone in her right arm, due to a rare congenital anomaly called radial hemimelia. Luz’s mother Diana expressed concern for her daughter, as “she wasn’t able to use her two little hands, she needed help to go to the bathroom, to eat, to get dressed, to write”.

Thanks to ReSurge donors and two life-changing hand surgeries, Luz is an artist and vivid creator that can express herself and envision a bright and colorful future.

Transform lives like
Dilasha’s everyday

Dilasha was born with a cleft lip, a revelation that initially brought her mother Lalita to tears as she shared, “I thought I would never see my daughter smile.”

Thanks to ReSurge donors and surgeons, Dilasha now looks forward to a future of possibilities and Lalita is able to see her daughter smile. For now, she loves singing, games of chess with her mother, and playing with the animals on the farm.

Transform lives like
Jacob’s everyday

60% of Jacob’s body was burned in a cooking fire accident.

Jacob’s mother Whitnes donated her skin to give her son a chance at life. Thanks to ReSurge donors and surgeons, Jacob is now a healthy teenager who loves playing soccer and studying his favorite subject, science

Your Donation Creates Sustainable Change.

The patients we serve at ReSurge are the core of what we do. Give today to create a ripple effect that changes the world through training and life-changing, no-cost reconstructive surgeries.

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