Your donations will go towards providing complex reconstructive surgery for refugees, displaced populations, and vulnerable communities affected by armed conflict. 

Donate today to help fund our mission to Iraq, helping men, women, and children devastated by conflict. Injuries from collapsing buildings, high-velocity weapons, explosive blasts, and burn trauma require specialist care to prevent long-term disability and harm.

Help us provide care, because war doesn’t just destroy communities, it destroys hope. 

“The typical patient journey for a wounded civilian in Syria is that he sees the nearest local hospital within 2-6 hours and if it has not been destroyed, he might get first aid treatment or surgery by the doctor after a few days. If he still is alive, he has to move out back to his family or the journey continues to the border where he waits for days and weeks until he can cross it. Then either family members in Lebanon or Jordan pick him up and carry him to a state hospital where he receives limited treatment (surgery if necessary) if he has money, otherwise he lands on the streets, vulnerable and in need". 
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​The Needs on the Ground

Decades of conflict and violence in Iraq has left close to 10 million Iraqis in need of humanitarian help and forced nearly 3 million people to flee their homes. This is further compounded by a quarter of a million Syrians seeking refuge in Iraq. With many suffering crippling injuries through violence and war, we need your help to rebuild their shattered lives. 

Our Next Mission And How You Can Help

Our group of volunteer surgeons are now scheduled for a new mission in October 2021 to Erbil, Iraq, where almost one million refugees and displaced populations live in cities and in 30 refugee camps with little access to complex healthcare. With your help, our new Humanitarian Complex Care program, housed at Zheen International Hospital, Erbil, will fund life-changing surgeries, rehabilitation and the opportunity to rebuild lives.

Impact of Your Donation

Your donations will help fund: Critical surgical operations and hospital stays for vulnerable people injured by conflict. They will also fund special equipment for skin grafting burns, microsurgery, and reconstructive of the face and hands. We'll also be able to purchase high quality reconstruction plates, screws, and artificial joints that will benefit patients for decades. We will also need to support travel costs of some of the worlds’ most trusted reconstructive surgeons, nurses, and anaesthetists who work at no cost and train people on the ground. Finally,  your support will help us build human capital with stipends for local healthcare providers to work alongside our teams and provide long-term care within their communities, to vulnerable patients who receive surgery.