It all began with one child.
In 1979, a young Korean child died soon after
being adopted by an American couple. Her condition
could have been treated when she was an infant,
but the necessary medical services were not available
to her in her home land.
From this tragedy a vision and
a cause were born. Some months after the little
girl's death, her adoptive mother happened to
hear of another child, this one from Guatemala,
who would soon die without a surgical procedure
not offered there. She did what seemed natural
- and indeed, inevitable - and arranged for the
child to travel to the United States and have
the surgery done here.
That was the first healing
act of Healing the Children.
Today it is an active and imaginative
nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated
to securing donated medical and surgical care
for foreign and domestic children who are in
need. Over 95,000 children from around the world
are alive, whole, and healthy because Healing
the Children is working on their behalf. From
its beginning in one family it has grown to encompass
12 chapters in 22 states, working with one common
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