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Each year, WPP patients and their families travel away from  home, many for the first time, to the U.S. for life-saving and life-changing critical care. This can understandably be a challenging time for them but volunteers help make the journey to health a little smoother. Recently, new volunteer Ashley Van der Waag had the opportunity to do just that for …

  Just like Devaan, there are many more children in Belize needing critical care. Please click here to consider making a gift in honor of Devaan to heal a child and change the world. A year ago this month, little Devaan received a second chance at life. Born in Belize with a complicated defect, he was malnourished and battling multiple …

Led by Dr. Isaac Wornom, Dr. Sharline Aboutanos and Dr. Mike Estes, the WPP pediatric plastic surgery team returned to rural northern Honduras for their annual mission at Hospital Asturias in January 2012. Of the 91 children seen during the week, 45 received surgery with this specialty team.  In addition to surgery, this mission also provides post-operative speech therapy and …

WPP’s 6th annual pediatric general surgery team traveled to Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in St. Vincent in January 2012. Led by Dr. David Lanning, the team worked locally with pediatric general surgeon Dr. Ty-Asha Plummer to evaluate and treat many children from the region. WPP’s ECI Hub continues to grow and reach new communities in need of pediatric critical services. …

Hi, I’m Jen, and I’m leaving for my first World Pediatric Project trip this weekend and taking you with me! Learn more in this short video.  It will be my FIRST TIME traveling for WPP, and also my first experience in the country of Belize. I have no idea what to expect. As communications director, I’m needed in the office …

What would life be like without an arm? Six year old Zhanique knew she might have to find out. Diagnosed with a cancerous lesion in her bone, amputation was her only option for survival on the island of St. Kitts. Fortunately, our partners in the Caribbean alerted us to the case. We checked with WPP volunteers Dr. Kuester and Dr. …

World Pediatric Project’s pediatric plastic surgery team recently traveled to Clínica Asturias in Toyos, Honduras, located in a rural region outside the city of San Pedro Sula and saw 91 children. WPP is proud of this team and their focus in providing continuity of care in a rural setting and striving to make delivered care more comprehensive through speech therapy …