Mission: China

November 4 - 13, 2011 - Our 8-member volunteer surgical team from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, along with our staff and volunteers performed 11 surgeries over 5 days to correct gastrointestinal deformities at Maria’s Big House of Hope in Louyang, China. These orphans will now be considered "adoptable" and will soon find their forever families! Most of the children born with these types of defects die within days if they are not treated immediately after birth. On this trip, MKI team volunteer, Dr. Frykman, also trained local surgeons on a new surgical technique that avoids colostomy and gives these kids an immediate cure. Truly a successful mission!

You can read all about our journey to Louyang, China on our blog by clicking the blog icon beneath this text, and you can also view photos from our mission by clicking the Flickr icon, also below.

Here is an excerpt from our first day from Karissa Nguyen, our MKI Mission Intern:

"…at Maria’s Big House of Hope in Louyang, China the warm welcomes continued. Everyone at the house was so excited and enthusiastic about our arrival that it made is easy for us to settle in. Everything about MBHOH is simply beautiful. There are currently 140 orphans with special needs living at the house; each and every one of them is so adorable that you can’t help but gravitate to them when you pass by. Living under the same roof with them for the next ten days will be very fun. I’m afraid I might not want to leave..."

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