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LWB’s 2024 Guatemala Cleft Surgery Trip

Posted on April 25, 2024

At LWB, we have a deep commitment to helping some of the world’s most vulnerable children who have been born with cleft lip and palate. Cleft lip and palate cause many serious challenges such as difficulty feeding, poor growth and overall development, dental issues, frequent ear infections, hearing loss, and speech issues. Since 2004, we […]

Child Trafficking in Asia

Posted on April 18, 2024

Human trafficking, as you can well imagine, is an incredibly complex topic that sadly includes children from countries all over the world. It’s hard to find a single definition of child trafficking, but UNICEF describes it in this way: Child victims of trafficking are recruited, transported, transferred, harbored, or received for the purpose of exploitation. […]

Bentely’s Story of Hope

Posted on April 11, 2024

When Baby Bentely was born in India in 2021, his parents were told right away that he had a very serious heart defect that needed immediate surgery. Their tiny newborn was placed on a ventilator and referred to the cardiac specialists at Amrita Hospital. It was his one chance for healing. While Bentely’s mother recovered […]

Farewell to a Legacy of Love: LWB’s China Healing Home

Posted on April 2, 2024

Problems and solutions. So much of what we at LWB have done over the years has come about as a result of identifying a problem and finding a solution. This is exactly how our China Healing Homes program came to be 18 years ago, when our foundation was just a few years old. The Story […]

Second Chances: Foster Care and Reunification in Cambodia

Posted on March 28, 2024

In December of 2020, we learned of a large sibling group in a poor, rural region of Cambodia in need of a second chance. The mother had left the children completely on their own in order to go searching for work. When our team came across them during an emergency food distribution during the pandemic, […]

Sign Language for Deaf Children in Guatemala

Posted on March 19, 2024

At LWB, we believe that every child, no matter what their abilities are, deserves to have access to education, understanding, and community. To work towards this goal in Guatemala, we hope to empower and include children who are deaf by beginning a sign language program. In rural Guatemala, resources for special needs education are scarce, […]

Mighty Marisol’s Story of Hope

Posted on March 14, 2024

Today we look back at a very special girl who we came to know as “Mighty Marisol” from our China Medical and Healing Homes programs. This tiny child fought her way through a very complex heart defect and serious post-operative complications that threatened to take her from the world. She is a survivor, and we […]

Story of Hope: Lulu from the Landfill Site

Posted on March 7, 2024

In 2020, we met a lovely little girl named Lulu. She and her family were living an unspeakably harsh life at a rural landfill site in Cambodia. At that time, Lulu’s parents had lost employment due to the COVID pandemic and had no way to feed their three children. The family had moved many hours […]

213 Children Healed in Uganda: Our Latest Pediatric Hernia Mission

Posted on February 29, 2024

Last week, a team of 26 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other medical staff came together at Nebbi General Hospital in northern Uganda for our February 2024 Pediatric Hernia Mission — and it was an amazing week of hope and healing. Just imagine — 213 surgeries in five days! Tonight, so many children will sleep pain-free […]

Cardiac Surgery Story of Hope: Celine

Posted on February 22, 2024

In 2019, a woman named Resty wrote to LWB’s Medical Care program, pleading for help for her only child, Celine. Celine had been born with a serious cardiac defect called tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), which is a combination of four different defects which typically need to be corrected during the first year of life. When […]

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