Team Manhattan is a dedicated group of medical professionals headed to Ethiopia in January to provide free medical and surgical care to patients in need. In addition to medical care, we will help educate local providers to make sustainable improvements to the local health care system. This is our fifth mission trip with nonprofit Operation International.

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 Manhattan:

Team Manhattan was established in 2022 by Dr. Mona Gangar and Dr. Dilip Madnani. We have carried out successful mission trips to Uganda, Bolivia, Tanzania, and Laos, most recently completing 89 head and neck/craniofacial surgical cases in just five days in 2026. 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.

Fund Life Saving Surgery In Ethiopia

Operation International's Team Manhattan will head on their fifth mission trip in January

Team Members