STORIES
Our Founder, Dr. Donald Laub In 1969, a group of volunteers from the Bay Area’s Latin American Mission Program (LAMP) requested help from Stanford University Hospital for a 13-year-old boy Mexican boy named Antonio. Antonio has a severe cleft lip and palate. He was bei …
Earlier this month, a ReSurge surgical mission trip visited Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, where we treated Razia, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar. The Rohingya are an ethnic minority with their own language and culture. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country, denies citizenship to the Muslim Rohingya …
How did you hear about ReSurge and get involved? One of the University of Wisconsin pediatric neurosurgeons I often worked with, asked me to join him on a volunteer neurosurgical mission trip at the Cure Hospital in Mbale, Uganda. A colleague of mine, and ReSurge volunteer, Les Proctor MD, suggested …
When Dr. Goran Jovic was presented the case of a teenager attacked by a hyena, he turned to ReSurge …
Mateo was one of nearly 17,000 people who receive a severe burn every year in Zambia, a country with …
Determined to do the best they could for their babies, mothers Bella and Mwanga banded together for …
Five-year-old Jacob is bright, outgoing and likes to play football. But life for Jacob hasn’t been c …
Jonas is one brave little 5 year old. He lives with his family under a giant baobob tree on the plai …
ReSurge’s patients and their families are brave. They are strong. They are fighters. Some take a bus …