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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 …

ReSurge is proud to announce our collaboration with Ohana One International Surgical Aid, a global surgical training nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate high-quality surgical and anesthesia programs in developing areas around the world today. As part of their Surgical Sigh …

Rinchin, 13, wants to be a movie star. He is one of the patients we met recently when students from …

Four-year-old Nguyen was born with three of his fingers fused on each hand, a congenital birth defec …

Hoa, a young mother, knew intimately the stigma of a cleft lip as she had been born with one herself …

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 fi …

Sixteen-month-old My and her mother, Hat, live in Quy Nhon, on Vietnam’s eastern coast. When Hat was …