ReSurge International partners with other nonprofits, foundations and corporations to help provide life-transforming care. We are grateful for these partnerships.

Acid Survivors Foundation

In Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia, one particularly vicious and damaging form of violence is acid throwing. Acid attacks have traumatic consequences—physically, psychologically and socially. Acid burn victims face social isolation damaging to self-esteem and economic position. The Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) was established in 1999 to coordinate efforts tackling this problem. It aims to provide ongoing assistance in the treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration into society of survivors of acid violence by identifying and improving existing services, and to work to prevent further acid-throwing attacks. Dr. Shafquat Khundkar, director of ReSurge’s Surgical Outreach Program in Bangladesh, serves as medical advisor for ASF.

APROQUEN (Asociación Pro Niños Quemados de Nicaragua)

This nonprofit in Nicaragua provides funding for free burn care for children. The organization supports the burn unit at the Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas in Managua. ReSurge has partnered with APROQUEN since its founding in 1991 to provide free reconstructive plastic surgery for children at the Ingenio San Antonio, the burn center and the ReSurge Surgical Outreach Program. The medical director of this ReSurge Outreach Center is Dr. Mario Perez.

Armonizar

ReSurge partners with Armonizar, a Peruvian nongovernmental organization (NGO) committed to the rehabilitation of children born with cleft defects. Their work includes counseling, nutrition, and speech and physical therapy. Through the ReSurge Surgical Outreach Program in Lima, ReSurge provides free surgeries for Armonizar patients, and Armonizar provides follow-up therapies for ReSurge patients, ensuring comprehensive cleft care in this area of the world, even for the most impoverished patients.

FlySpec (Flying Specialists)

This nonprofit was founded in 1982 by Dr. John Jellis, an orthopedic surgeon in Zambia. In 1994, he was joined by Dr. Goran Jovic, the ReSurge outreach director in Zambia. The surgeons use Jellis’s small plane to reach even the remotest areas of Zambia in order to provide free reconstructive orthopedic and plastic surgery to those in most need.

InterAction

ReSurge is a proud member of InterAction, the largest coalition of U.S.- based international nongovernmental organizations focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people. Collectively, InterAction’s more than 190 members work in every developing country. Members meet people halfway in expanding opportunities and supporting gender equality in education, health care, agriculture, small business and other areas. The U.S. public shows its support for this work through contributions to InterAction members totaling more than $7 billion annually. Susan W. Hayes, ReSurge president and CEO, serves on the InterAction board of directors.

PHECT-Nepal (Public Health Concern Trust-Nepal)

This Nepalese nonprofit is committed to achieving better health for the people of the Nepal, particularly the poor in outlying, rural areas, through the provision of quality patient care. ReSurge’s Surgical Outreach Program in Nepal partners with PHECT to help the underserved children and adults who need reconstructive surgery for clefts, disabling burns and hand injuries. Dr. Shankar Man Rai directs ReSurge’s Outreach Center in Nepal.

Rostros Felices (Happy Faces)

Founded by ReSurge partner Dr. Jorge Palacios in 1990, this organization provides reconstructive plastic surgery at no cost to poor children in remote areas of Ecuador. ReSurge has collaborated with Rostros Felices since its inception. Dr. Palacios also is the director of ReSurge’s Surgical Outreach Program in Ecuador.