Team DC is a dedicated group of medical professionals headed to Tanzania in July to provide free medical and surgical care to patients in need. We are excited to visit the Tanganyika District, where the community lacks access to basic health care services. In addition to medical care, we will help educate local health providers and will be providing supplies to local schools and orphanages.

Want to join me in making a difference? Any donation will help us provide life-changing care to patients who otherwise would not have access to this treatment. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to our team. Please note: each team member has a specific fundraising goal, if your team member has already hit their goal, consider spreading the love to another of our volunteers!

More About Team DC:

Team DC was established and carried out their maiden mission to our base in Uganda in 2018. Since then, under the leadership of Dr. John O'Shea, the team has carried out an annual mission to several OI bases in Africa. See more of our work here and in the video and photos below:

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.

Team NY, the first Operation International team, made its maiden mission to Haiti in 1997, where the founders of the organization witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of poverty and inadequate medical care.

Since the beginning, our teams of doctors, clinicians, nurses, and aides have expanded to include over 200 medical professionals in multiple Chapters located throughout the United States, the UK, and Hong Kong.

In our many medical missions to date, we have directly impacted the lives of thousands of people by performing life-saving and life-changing surgeries including cancer surgeries, sight restoration surgeries, burn reconstructive surgeries, corrective surgeries for congenital anomalies such as clubfoot and cleft palate, and obstetric and gynecological surgeries.

Help Team DC Bring Surgical Care to Tanzania

The Operation International team will head on their sixth mission trip in July

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