Our medical volunteers give their time, talent, and services to help people around the world receive the specialized surgical and medical care they need. They frequently sacrifice vacation time and…
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LEAP changes lives. On our recent mission to Mexico, LEAP volunteer Yuuki Ando was given the opportunity to interview one of our graduating patients, Juan Carlos. In their discussion, they…
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Meet Williams, a 10-year-old boy with bilateral microtia from our recent Mexico mission. Williams, his mother, and two of his teachers traveled 9 hours from the State of Morelos to…
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Babushka is the Russian word for grandmother and the loving name that many use for Alexandra Goode. Alexandra was born in Russia, but her family was forced to flee to…
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Melisa was a toddler when she fell into the open flames of a fire her family used for cooking. The next years of her childhood were defined by a constant…
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Dr. Evan Beale, Nainsi, and Dr. Eric Payne Our first Cheryl Lamon Memorial patient from India is here! We met eight-year-old Nainsi during our India mission last February. She was…
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Thalia and Margarita with Paola Chaljub (Dominican Cultural Society Secretary) and her daughter Itzel At LEAP, we value developing long-term commitments to our patients, their families, and their communities to…
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In her four years as a volunteer nurse for LEAP, Vicki Wendling has been on nine missions to Zimbabwe, Haiti, Belize, and India. We were very excited for her to…
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Dr. Mary Ellen Thurman is an anesthesiologist practicing in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s India trip was her first visit to India but her second trip with LEAP. Mary Ellen…
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Dr. Latha Kampalath is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. When asked how many trips she has gone on with a LEAP volunteer in the past 15 years,…
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