Lydia is one of two young children who Operation International is raising money for this holiday season. To read about another young child in need of heart surgery, Nueline, please click here. Or, if you'd like to make a general donation to our works supporting medical missions and orphanages around the world, please click here.

More About Operation International:

Operation International is a secular, non-political, humanitarian organization founded in 1996 by Medhat Allam, MD; Ravi Kothuru, MD; and Robert Mineo, CRNA under the original name of International Surgical Mission Support. The founders aspired to offer free medical care to children and adults suffering from the lack of basic health care in poor countries.

In our quest to advance human rights ideas, Operation International provides free medical care to people in need — regardless of gender, cultural, ethnic, political or religious affiliations. To ensure that our efforts impact underserved communities for years to come, we also offer education and training to local health care workers during each of our medical missions, as well as improve hospitals’ infrastructure through equipment donation.

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Help Operation International Pay For A 3-Year-Old's Heart Surgery