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Mending Kids is a
2) Surgical Missions –– Mending Kids assembles pediatric surgical mission teams along with non-medical volunteers and takes them to developing countries to provide free specialized surgeries to under-served, impoverished and/or orphaned children. Surgical missions provide help to children who would otherwise not have access to this care in their own country. The missions' priorities are to provide local surgeons and medical staff with mentoring and specialized surgical training in order to create self-sustainment. In 2014, Mending Kids is scheduled to travel on 11 missions including: Ethiopia, Panama, Guatemala (two trips), Mozambique, China, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.
:3) International Surgeries –– Due to a variety of reasons, including funding, it may be near impossible to fly the child to Los Angeles or send a surgical mission team to serve one patient. To solve this type of cases, Mending Kids arranges to fund or provide surgeries to these children locally or in neighboring countries by partnering with local hospitals and other NGOs who may have access to surgeons but not the necessary funding.
:4) Hometown Mission Mending Kids launched their first Hometown mission in July 2013. The program gives needed operations to children living in the United States treatment when they do not have access to the surgical care they need, or have been denied by providers. A volunteer surgical team from a local hospital perform operations on up to 20 children in one day over the summer.
Mending Kids Hometown Mission Clip
* International medical and health organizations International organizations based in the United States Medical and health organizations based in California Health charities in the United States Organizations based in Los Angeles County, California {{int-org-stub
501(c)(3) non-profit organization
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...
that provides surgeries to children across the world while training local medical communities to become self-sustaining. It brings surgical mission teams of doctors, nurses and volunteers who donate their time and services to travel to developing countries to perform procedures that range from pediatric
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
open-heart, neuro, ENT, orthopedic
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
or general surgeries on impoverished or orphaned children while establishing sustainable teaching programs.
Since 2006, it has helped thousands of children in 54 countries around the world, including the United States. The organization currently operates in Burbank, California.
History
Cris Embleton started volunteering nearly 30 years ago by helping local hospitals and communities. After the death of her adopted daughter just prior to her first birthday, she started her own non-profit organization, 'Healing the Children', which is now running in 14 states. In order to expand the mission in California, Embleton and her local Board of Directors broke off from the organization and started Mending Kids International in 2005.Programs
:1) U.S. Surgeries –– The organization brings children with complex surgical needs to the United States for treatment in partnerships with hospitals, such asChildren's Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital in the East Hollywood district of Los Angeles, on Sunset Boulevard at the corner of Vermont Avenue. The hospital has been academically affi ...
, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a nonprofit, tertiary, 886-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital employs a staff of over 2 ...
and UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (also commonly referred to as ''UCLA Medical Center'', "RRMC" or "Ronald Reagan") is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United ...
, and several other medical organizations across Southern California. During the surgeries, the organization places the children with approved host families who make certain the children's emotional needs and living arrangements are provided.
:2) Surgical Missions –– Mending Kids assembles pediatric surgical mission teams along with non-medical volunteers and takes them to developing countries to provide free specialized surgeries to under-served, impoverished and/or orphaned children. Surgical missions provide help to children who would otherwise not have access to this care in their own country. The missions' priorities are to provide local surgeons and medical staff with mentoring and specialized surgical training in order to create self-sustainment. In 2014, Mending Kids is scheduled to travel on 11 missions including: Ethiopia, Panama, Guatemala (two trips), Mozambique, China, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.
:3) International Surgeries –– Due to a variety of reasons, including funding, it may be near impossible to fly the child to Los Angeles or send a surgical mission team to serve one patient. To solve this type of cases, Mending Kids arranges to fund or provide surgeries to these children locally or in neighboring countries by partnering with local hospitals and other NGOs who may have access to surgeons but not the necessary funding.
:4) Hometown Mission Mending Kids launched their first Hometown mission in July 2013. The program gives needed operations to children living in the United States treatment when they do not have access to the surgical care they need, or have been denied by providers. A volunteer surgical team from a local hospital perform operations on up to 20 children in one day over the summer.
References
External links
*Mending Kids Hometown Mission Clip
* International medical and health organizations International organizations based in the United States Medical and health organizations based in California Health charities in the United States Organizations based in Los Angeles County, California {{int-org-stub