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20 Years of Hope: Bekah

Posted on August 24, 2023

In late 2012, LWB was contacted about a toddler girl with a complex set of heart issues. Her orphanage in China had originally hoped she could be adopted and that surgery could be delayed until that time, but her low oxygen levels and repeated bouts of pneumonia let them know that she couldn’t wait any […]

20 Years of Hope: Jackie

Posted on July 27, 2023

Teenage Jackie had been suffering from a heart defect her entire life. She had been diagnosed with a large ASD (atrial septal defect), a hole in her heart that should have been repaired when she was much younger. Because their parents were not able to care for them, Jackie and a sister were living with […]

3 Ugandan Children Arrive in India for Heart Surgeries

Posted on July 25, 2023

This week, three children from Uganda headed to India to receive their long-awaited heart surgeries. As with any complicated trip involving medically fragile kids, some travel glitches occurred. Sadly, one of the children chosen for this travel group, little Arianna, is currently ill in the hospital and unable to travel, and we’re working with this […]

154 Children Healed: LWB’s Newest Pediatric Hernia Mission

Posted on July 16, 2023

A team of 24 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other medical staff came together at Kawolo Hospital in Lugazi, Uganda for our June 2023 Uganda Pediatric Hernia Mission — and it was an amazing week of hope and healing! The surgical team, led by Dr. Charles Odongo, completed 154 life-altering pediatric hernia surgeries in five days […]

20 Years of Hope: Verena

Posted on June 16, 2023

Little Verena was born prematurely to secondary school teachers in Uganda. After spending a few weeks in a hospital incubator, she was transferred to the Uganda Heart Institute where doctors diagnosed her with a heart defect. Unfortunately, Verena’s heart defect could not be repaired in Uganda, as it was too complex. Verena’s only chance at life […]

20 Years of Hope: Cyrus and Rebecca

Posted on May 18, 2023

Three-year-old Cyrus came to our attention in the fall of 2019 after being surrendered by his father in Uganda. This beautiful little boy had multiple disabilities due to cerebral palsy. He could not stand or even sit without support, and he also had significant developmental delays. Thankfully, we were able to take Cyrus into our […]

20 Years of Hope: Grace

Posted on April 27, 2023

In April of 2017, we learned of a lovely 14-year-old named Grace who lived with her mom and siblings on the shores of a remote lake in Uganda. Grace suffered from a rare medical condition in which literally THOUSANDS of small tumors filled her abdomen. Weak and suffering from terrible pain, she lived in isolation […]

20 Years of Hope: Ian

Posted on April 13, 2023

Little Ian came into our care under difficult circumstances. He was born in Uganda in the spring of 2015, and sadly, his mother left when he was just four months old. Ian continued living with his father in a rented home, but around the time of his first birthday, Ian’s father disappeared from his life. […]

20 Years of Hope: Albert and Allan

Posted on March 23, 2023

Albert and Allan were born in May of 2008 in a small village in Uganda. In a tragic twist of fate, the boys’ father died before they were born, and they lost their mother just hours after birth. With no relatives to be found on either side of the family, the very kind birth attendant […]

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 […]

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