Our 2024 Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Four of Surgery
Hola once again from the beautiful city of Antigua, Guatemala, site of LWB’s 2024 cleft surgery trip. LWB has been doing cleft surgery trips for 20 years now, and today we were honored to help our oldest ever surgical patient. We introduced you to Ronald in our first blog, a humble man who has waited […]
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Our 2024 Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Three of Surgery
Hola from the wonderful charity hospital in Antigua, Guatemala where LWB is holding its 2024 cleft surgery trip. Today was a very full day of surgeries, with 12 children going through our operating rooms. One of the happiest babies of the day was 5-month-old Jimmy, who had charmed everyone on intake day. Jimmy had a […]
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Our 2024 Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Two of Surgery
Hello again from Antigua, Guatemala, where the Fuego volcano is putting on a show. Our 2024 cleft trip is now in full swing, with another eleven children receiving their life-changing surgeries today. Before the magic in the OR got underway this morning, our team did rounds on the patients who received surgery yesterday. The moms […]
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LWB’s 2024 Guatemala Cleft Surgery Trip
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 […]
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20 Years of Hope: Hercules
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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20 Years of Hope: Emily
While visiting an orphanage in southern China in 2021, LWB’s CEO and founder Amy Eldridge encountered an unforgettable 16-month old girl we called Emily. In her book, “The Heart of Community,” Amy writes, She was lying flat on her back in an old metal crib, with a blanket covering her body. She was incredibly tiny. […]
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20 Years of Hope: Liane
Born in 2013, Liane came to the attention of our China staff when she was one year old. She was living in a rural area of China with her grandparents while her parents sought work far away in a city. Liane had been born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate which greatly hampered her […]
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