HOME DONATE NOW GET INVOLVED MORE... Critical Surgical Care for Sick Children DONATE UPDATES Mending Kids gives sick kids life-saving surgical care while advancing education and training towards medical sufficiency in their communities. Since 2005, we have mended thousands of children in 68 countries, including the US. countries served surgical mission trips completed children mended as of 12/31/2020 Mending Kids is rated Platinum by Guidestar and 100 out of 100 by Charity Navigator. Subscribe to see your donations at work! UPCOMING EVENTS & PROGRAMS In these trying times filled with uncertainty, we have readjusted our mission schedule out of concern for the health and wellbeing of our volunteers and medical teams, and most importantly our immunocompromised cardiac patients. Our mission to Namibia has been postponed and our upcoming trip to Peru is being rescheduled for the fall. Armenia and Tanzania programs are currently in a holding pattern. We hope to deploy our teams as soon as it is safe to do so. Philippine Regional Cardiac Missions with the Philippine Heart Center October 24-29, 2021 LEARN MORE Ear Nose Throat Symposium: Pediatric Sinus Disorders and Management Wednesday, October 27, 2021 REGISTER NOW Cardiac Symposium: Diagnosis & Management of Common Arrhythmias in Children & Adults (with CHD) Thursday, November 11, 2021 REGISTER NOW Hike to Mend! An ongoing campaign honoring the journey that a parent takes to gain access to surgical care for their child. Join us in raising awareness of health disparity everywhere. Hike a few miles so that, together, we can provide kids with the life-changing care that they need. START YOUR HIKE Annual Report 2020: If 2020 hindsight and vision taught us anything, it’s that we're always prepared for the unexpected; something we’ve learned from the planning and deploying hundreds of overseas surgical missions over the last 15 years. So in late spring when the world shut down, we stayed open and kept pushing forward. CLICK TO READ OUR CORE PROGRAMS OVERSEAS SURGICAL MISSION Our assembled surgical teams travel to developing countries on specialized missions to mend children in need of life-saving surgeries, and to train local surgical staff to create sustainable programs. LEARN MORE HOMETOWN MISSION We provide outpatient surgical care to children living in the United States who do not have access to care by teaming with volunteer surgeons, nursing staff and local surgical centers. LEARN MORE MEND U.S. Mend US is an expansion of our Hometown Mission Program, which grew out of our recognition that some children from underserved communities across the U.S. are unable to receive the surgeries they need as insurance companies consider these to be “non-life threatening” or “elective” and therefore not covered. Our Mend US program allows qualifying patients across the United States to have year-round access to outpatient surgeries. LEARN MORE INDIVIDUAL SURGICAL CARE - INTL & US Through partnerships with renowned hospitals, we bring children with complex surgical needs to the United States for treatment. While the child is here, they are placed with a loving host family that cares for all of their needs. If surgery is not possible for a child in the United States or on a surgical mission, we arrange surgeries through partnerships with local hospitals in-country or in nearby countries. WANT TO FIND OUT MORE? INTERESTED IN JOINING US ON A MISSION? CLICK TO FILL OUT AN INTEREST FORM TRAINING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION In 2015, the Training, Research and Innovation department was created at Mending Kids. The department promotes effective philanthropy and expands Mending Kids’ mission through research that informs decision-making and program design. Routine community appraisals and needs assessment, evaluation of programs and partnerships, and data collection and analysis will guide the organization’s strategic growth. Mending Kids is committed to conducting research and collecting data on key surgical indicators on nearly every mission we deploy, and then using the information gathered to monitor progress, engage communities, and inform health policies. Support Our Programs A MAP OF THE PLACES WE'VE SERVED... Since 2005, we have mended children in over 64 countries, including the United States. Zooming on the map and see where we've been! * Purple markers are countries where we led surgical mission trips in while blue markers are countries where we helped individual patients CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR RECENT PROGRAM PHOTOS AND ALBUMS DONATE NOW VOLUNTEER REFER A CHILD BECOME A HOST FAMILY Subscribe to see your donation at work! Mailing Address: Mending Kids 21255 Burbank Blvd, Ste 120 Los Angeles, CA 91367 General Inquiry: Phone: 818-843-6363 Email: hello@mendingkids.org Mending Kids is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization registered in California, United States of America. Copyright Mending Kids © 2020