Mending Kids gives sick kids life-saving surgical care while advancing education
​and training towards medical sufficiency in their communities.
​Since 2005, we have mended thousands of children in over 66 countries, including the US.
countries served
surgical mission trips completed
children mended as of 12/31/2019
Our 2020 Hometown Mission - Los Angeles is scheduled to take place this Summer (July/August) at our local partner surgical center. During this one-day surgical mission, our team of board-certified surgeons, recovery nurses and other medical professionals will be donating their time and skills to provide quality surgical care for up to 20 children.
​Please join and support us by referring eligible patients, available medical volunteers, or news platforms that can help us spread the word. 
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UPCOMING EVENTS & MISSION TRIPS

In these trying times filled with uncertainty, we have readjusted our mission schedule out of concern for the health and wellbeing of our volunteers and medical teams, and most importantly our immunocompromised cardiac patients. Our mission to Namibia has been postponed and our upcoming trip to Peru is being rescheduled for the fall.  Armenia and Tanzania programs are currently in a holding pattern. We hope to deploy our teams as soon as it is safe to do so.
Tanzania Symposium July 2020
More details TBD

Namibia- Cardiac Mission
Lead by Dr. Agati  (Postponed)

Peru- General Mission
Lead by Dr. Vincent Duron 
Rescheduled - Fall 2020
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Tanzania- ENT Mission
Lead by Dr. Ayal Willner  (June 18-26)

Armenia- Plastics Mission
Lead by Dr. Andre Panossian  (June 21-27)

Tanzania- Cardiac Mission
Co-Lead by Dr. Zahn & Dr. Agati (TBD)

Guatemala- ENT Mission
Lead by Dr. Varma (October 10-17)

Tanzania- ARM Mission
Lead by Dr. Frischer (TBD)
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Honduras- Orthopedic Mission
Lead by Dr. Koloyan (TBD)

upcoming campaign

MASKrAID® is a campaign for children in the U.S. whose health care needs are suffering from the financial devastation of the pandemic.
This summer, we will launch our MASKrAID®  campaign with an online auction of a collection of one-of-a-kind masks created by iconic and civic-minded individuals. Through this campaign we will raise the funding necessary to provide children with free life-changing surgeries during our 2020 Hometown Mission. As we are all painfully aware, the economic effects of the pandemic are devastating to families in already precarious financial situations. These are the families that the Mending Kids Hometown Mission serves, and we are expecting a massive increase in need for our help this year and in the years to follow.  

OUR CORE PROGRAMS

Overseas Surgical Mission

Our assembled surgical teams travel to developing countries on specialized missions to mend children in need of life-saving surgeries, and to train local surgical staff to create sustainable programs.

Hometown ​Mission

We provide outpatient surgical care to children living in the United States who do not have access to care by teaming with volunteer surgeons, nursing staff and local surgical centers. 

mend u.s.

Mend US is an expansion of our Hometown Mission Program, which grew out of our recognition that some children from underserved communities across the U.S. are unable to receive the surgeries they need as insurance companies consider these to be “non-life threatening” or “elective” and therefore not covered.
Our Mend US program allows qualifying patients across the United States to have year-round access to outpatient surgeries.

INDIVIDUAL SURGICAL CARE
- INTL & US

Through partnerships with renowned hospitals, we bring children with complex surgical needs to the United States for treatment. While the child is here, they are placed with a loving host family that cares for all of their needs.
​If surgery is not possible for a child in the United States or on a surgical mission, we arrange surgeries through partnerships with local hospitals in-country or in nearby countries.

want to find out more? interested in joining us on a mission?

a map of The places we've served...

Since 2005, we have mended children in over 64 countries, including the United States. Zooming on the map and see where we've been!
* Purple markers are countries where we led surgical mission trips in while blue markers are countries where we helped individual patients

Training
Research
and
​Innovation
In 2015, the Training, Research and Innovation department was created at Mending Kids. The department promotes effective philanthropy and expands Mending Kids’ mission through research that informs decision-making and program design.

Routine community appraisals and needs assessment, evaluation of programs and partnerships, and data collection and analysis will guide the organization’s strategic growth.
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Mending Kids is committed to conducting research and collecting data on key surgical
indicators on nearly every mission we deploy, and then using the information gathered
to monitor progress, engage communities, and inform health policies.
Mailing Address:
Mending Kids
c/o WeWork
​21255 Burbank Blvd, Ste 120
Los Angeles, CA 91367
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Phone: 818-843-6363
General Inquiry:
​hello@mendingkids.org
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