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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

LWB’s Cardiac Care Program: A Last Chance for Healing

Posted on February 20, 2024

What if where you were born determined whether you would survive childhood? Love Without Boundaries began in 2003 with an international effort to save the life of one orphaned boy in China desperately in need of heart surgery. Since that time, we have helped over 1,300 children with congenital heart defects receive the essential cardiac […]

Scoliosis Surgery Success Times 2: Treasure and Michaela

Posted on February 8, 2024

In 2019, LWB learned of a lovely eleven-year-old Ugandan girl named Treasure who had a severe case of scoliosis (a curvature of the spine) that was making her life very difficult. Treasure’s scoliosis was so severe that her ribcage was pushed against her heart and lungs which caused breathing and circulation issues. Doctors in Uganda […]

Hetal’s Happy Heart

Posted on January 18, 2024

When she was just a few months old, Hetal became seriously ill with fevers and shortness of breath. Her parents took her to a nearby government hospital where doctors discovered a large hole in her heart — a ventricular septal defect (VSD). Hetal’s father struggled to make ends meet for his family as a daily […]

Two Babies and a 10-year-old Receive Heart Surgery in India

Posted on January 7, 2024

Our India Medical Program has had a busy couple of months. In the last four months of 2023, twelve children have had their hearts healed because of the generosity of our amazing donors! Baby Madhuri’s Heart Surgery Meet Baby Madhuri, the youngest child in the family. Her father delivers fruits to local vendors, and her […]

20 Years of Hope: Hercules

Posted on December 28, 2023

All this year, as we have celebrated 20 Years of Hope — LWB’s 20th anniversary — we have been sharing updates on some of the wonderful children this community has impacted over the last two decades. Today, we look back on a little boy from China who has become very close to our hearts over […]

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