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20 Years of Hope: Ting

Posted on November 9, 2023

In 2018, we first met Ting as a participant in our Life Skills Camp in Beijing, China. Our Life Skills Program focuses on older children who will soon be “aging out” of orphanage care in China. At the age of 18, Ting joined other young people to receive lessons on personal finance, self-esteem, career counseling, […]

20 Years of Hope: Our 1st Cleft Exchange, Dr. Padilla, and Sydney & Reagan

Posted on October 5, 2023

In late 2003, when Love Without Boundaries was just a few months old as a foundation, we were approached by a medical team that wanted to set up a cleft surgery mission to China. We never in a million years would have attempted something as complex as sending a team of physicians to a foreign […]

20 Years of Hope: Twins Max and Matthew

Posted on July 20, 2023

In early September of 2010, a rural orphanage in Henan province called us about a tiny, five-pound baby who had recently been abandoned. Max, as he came to be called, had been found with a life-threatening intestinal condition that often requires surgery within the first 48 hours of life. We knew there was no way […]

Why Cleft Lip and Palate Need to be Repaired

Posted on June 27, 2023

Just one year after Love Without Boundaries was organized as a charity in 2003, we organized our very first cleft trip to China. During this first trip, over 50 babies and children born with cleft lip and palate were healed by a team of American medical professionals who generously donated their time and expertise. This LWB model […]

20 Years of Hope: Cui

Posted on June 22, 2023

In 1986, a tiny baby named Cui was born with a very wide bilateral cleft lip. As a result, her birth parents abandoned her in a rural field shortly after she came into the world. Thankfully, a man passing by that day found Cui bundled up near the dusty road. When he saw the tiny […]

20 Years of Hope: Liane

Posted on March 15, 2023

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 […]

20 Years of Hope: Elyse

Posted on March 2, 2023

Back in 2006, when our work in China was only a few years old, an orphanage in central China reached out to us for help. They had recently received a baby born with a myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida in which the spinal cord and nerves develop outside of the body. In ideal […]

The Final Day of our Guatemala Cleft Trip

Posted on December 10, 2022

Greetings from lovely, colorful Antigua on the last day of our 2022 Guatemala Cleft Trip. It is always bittersweet to say a final goodbye to the families we have come to know and care about so deeply, but it was time for them to begin their long journeys back to their villages. When a shy […]

Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Five

Posted on December 9, 2022

Hola once more from the beautiful town of Antigua, Guatemala! Today is the last full day of surgeries on our Guatemala Cleft Trip. For the past two days, we have been able to run three operating rooms. Before we tell you some of the stories of the children today, let’s head over to morning rounds […]

Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Four

Posted on December 8, 2022

Hola from the 2022 LWB Cleft Mission to Antigua, Guatemala! We’ll dive right into morning rounds so you can see some of the beautiful children you met yesterday on our Day Three blog. First up in today’s review of our Guatemala cleft trip is little Froylan, who definitely wins “fastest bounce back ever.” Just one […]

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