medical assistance
The medical assistance program identified children throughout the world in need of life-saving medical care due to physical abnormalities such as cleft lip/palette, burns, or other impairments.
Ray of Hope garnered donated medical services in the United States, arranged all travel documentation (national ID, passport, U.S. visa), and provided an escort to bring just the child to the U.S. The child was then placed with an American host family who cared for the child before, during, and after medical treatment. Once released by medical authority, an escort returned the child to their family and culture.
We assisted in over 67 children getting the crucial care they needed.
When Covid hit in 2020, it completely shut down international travel and overwhelmed the worldwide medical system. As a result, the ability continue medical assistance operations was put on pause.
Now that the initial impacts of Covid have passed, we have begun to dream about the medical assistance program again. This time, we are focused on how we could best connect children in need with in-country medical assistance.
It’s our hope to show that America is not a magical place where people go and are healed. We want to show others that they are capable of healing their own, caring for their own, and being a community who takes care of each other. Our purpose there is merely to show them what that actually looks like.
We want to show families, locally and globally, that just because a baby is born with deformities or defects, they don’t deserve to be abandoned. Our hope is to show Uganda and the world that children (and their families) with outward medical differences can live a happy, healthy life and that we can and must care for children, even the ones who look different.
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