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January 26, 2024

Student Volunteer Makes A Difference

TCNJ student, Joshua Lerman, joined us on the October 2023 Ophthalmology mission at the Centro Medico Central Romana in La Romana serving as our translator. The […]
November 28, 2023

A Story of Thanksgiving

October 26, 2023

Healing the Children New Jersey Returns to the Dominican Republic for the First Time in Four Years

Healing the Children New Jersey sent thirty volunteers to the Centro Medico Central Romana in La Romana in October.  The team, led by Dr. Mark Engel, […]
January 12, 2023

Healing the Children New Jersey Sends an Ophthalmology Team to Leon Becerra Hospital for a Week-Long Medical Mission

Healing the Children New Jersey sent a team of twenty-seven volunteers to Guayaquil, Ecuador in December 2022 to perform pro-bono corrective pediatric surgeries. Led by surgeons […]
October 5, 2022

It’s Good to be Back

Thirty volunteers traveled to the Roberto Gilbert Children’s Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador from September 10-17 to provide complex urologic surgeries on children pro-bono. The talented team, […]
April 5, 2022

Carlos Returns Home With a Spring in his Step

It is no surprise that Carlos’s joyful reaction to his new adult-sized prostheses brought tears to his Host parent’s eyes. Nick and Jackie Alectoridis have hosted […]
January 14, 2020

Mission Accomplished

Nineteen volunteers travelled to the Dominican Republic from October 26 to November 2, 2019 on the annual ENT medical trip to help disadvantaged children. The team, […]
October 11, 2019

Facing the World with Confidence

The International Inbound Program brought Mariana Lira to New Jersey for the fourth time this summer for additional reconstructive surgery on her face. A patient of Dr. Hakan Kutlu […]
July 2, 2019

TURNING WISHES INTO REALITIES

During a six-month stay in New Jersey, Eulalia Estaban Pedro, a thirteen-year-old from Guatemala, underwent two surgeries for a frontal encephalocele performed by Dr. Richard Anderson, […]
March 25, 2019

Healing the Children New Jersey and Berkeley College Partner to Help Children in Ecuador

Healing the Children New Jersey and Berkeley College’s team of students, faculty, and alumna participated on a week-long medical mission at the Roberto Gilbert Children’s Hospital […]
March 18, 2019

Ophthalmology Team Improves the Quality of Life for Over One Hundred Ecuadorean Children

A team of twenty volunteers, led by Dr. Bruce Schnall, provided medical care to children with strabismus and ptosis. The team screened over three hundred children […]
March 17, 2019

Orthopedic Team Brings Hope to Ecuadorean Children and Their Families

Healing the Children New Jersey sent twenty-three volunteers to Guayaquil, Ecuador on an orthopedic mission in January to provide free surgical care to impoverished children. The […]
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