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David and Dayana are a young couple from a rural Bolivian town who went against all odds to save their...
Our annual ReSurge International Transformations gala was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who joined...
When Dr. Vinita Puri was asked to travel to Dehradun, India to perform free reconstructive surgeries...
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Magali's journey from burn victim to medical student showcases the power of resilience and the importance...
In Mali, there is only one physician for every 12,800 people—and no reconstructive plastic surgeons....
Hoa, a young mother, knew intimately the stigma of a cleft lip as she had been born with one herself....
Joseph is a 7-year-old boy from El Alto, Bolivia. He was born with syndactyly, a condition in which his...
When baby Christine was born in central Zambia, her mother immediately noticed that something was wrong....
When you meet Jonathan, you quickly realize he has more cares than a typical 6-year-old should. He has...
Sirisu is a charming 4-year-old from Nepal who accidentally scalded his arm while making hot food for...
During a clinic in Nicaragua last March, we met 2-month-old Dara. Dara, like so many other children,...
Astha, a baby girl in Nepal, fell from her mother’s lap into a fire during a traditional ceremony when...
Determined to do the best they could for their babies, mothers Bella and Mwanga banded together for a...
Awa, an 11-year-old girl, was shaking down fruit from a tree with a metal pole when her pole hit a live...
Alam lives in an apartment building in Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world....
Jacqueline’s 28-year-old daughter, Andrea, is her pride and joy. When Andrea was born with a bilateral...
I’ve been looking forward to returning to Dehradun because I would finally get the opportunity to revisit...
On a surgical team trip to Quy Nhon, Vietnam, we met Tam, a man who has been waiting 58 years to have...
Mateo was one of nearly 17,000 people who receive a severe burn every year in Zambia, a country with...
Y Dim, now 2 years old, was born in the rural mountains of Vietnam with a cleft lip. After she was born,...
Outside Bharatapur, a southern crossroads town where Nepal’s east and west meet on the nation’s main...
The ReSurge team fell in love with 3-month-old Thi Ngol Quyen during a trip to Vietnam in April 2013....
Like more than 2 billion people worldwide, Quynh’s family in Vietnam does their cooking over open fires....
