ReSurge International helps transform lives by restoring the health and dreams of those with deformities and injuries repairable through surgery.
By empowering local doctors, ReSurge increases access to surgical care.
By restoring lives through surgery, ReSurge helps reduce suffering and poverty.
By restoring lives through surgery, ReSurge helps reduce suffering and poverty.
Your donation is vital to the work we do to reach children all over the world in desperate need of reconstructive surgery. Thanks to donations like yours, we have provided nearly 95,000 life-changing surgeries.
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fight against the hidden
global health crisis of burns.
The first organization of its kind, ReSurge International (formerly Interplast) provides free reconstructive surgery for the poor in 14 developing countries.
More than 100 families waited patiently for evaluation on clinic day in Quang Ngai, Vietnam last year. All were anxious for their children to receive the life-changing surgical care they desperately needed.
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Stories of Hope
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At ReSurge International, we hear stories of renewed dreams and restored hope every day. We hear about how courageous our patients are, the sacrifices of our international partners and medical volunteers, as well as how our work truly makes a difference.
What follows are some stories of ReSurge's lasting impact on our patients, partners and friends. If you have a story, we would love to add it to our collection. They bring smiles to our faces, and we hope to yours too.
Mateo is one of nearly 17,000 people who receive a severe burn every year in Zambia, a country with one reconstructive plastic surgeon and 12.6 million people. When he was just five years old, Mateo tripped and fell into an open cooking fire.
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Kanchana, an acid burn survivor in Sri Lanka, has a
renewed lease on life and is inspiring other patients to
never lose hope. During her first year in nursing school,
someone threw acid on her while she was on her way to
class.
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In Mali, there is only one physician for every 12,800
people—and no reconstructive plastic surgeons. But
Dr. Oumar Coulibably is out to change that. He hopes one
day to be his country's first pediatric plastic surgeon.
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