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 goal:

Changing the world . . . One child at a time.