Our Impact

In 2025, 63 medical and support volunteers, plus Honduran medical residents, partner hospital medical staff, and Honduran volunteers and staff gathered in Comayagua.    Our five operating room (OR) teams ran surgeries in Santa Teresa Hospital and San Benito Jose Surgical Clinic (two of the only free surgical hospitals in central Honduras).  All of the volunteers paid their own travel and participation fees.

After screening over 200 patients, we operated on 150 of the highest needs patients, who lack other means to get the surgery they need.  We performed surgeries in 5 high needs areas: Urology, General (abdominal) surgery, Ophthalmology, and Gynecology.   Our patients ranged from 9 months old to 87 years of age, most of whom are under 10 or over 60 years of age.  All of the patients pay nothing for the surgery, thanks to your support, the volunteers who pay their own way, and our amazing partners in the group. The numbers are large, but impact in an individual life is even greater.  

A beautiful 9 month old, born with congenital cataracts, was completely blind before her surgery.  When she received her glasses the morning after surgery, our team was near tears watching her wide-eyed, tracking objects for the first time ever.    Another mother brought in her four year old son, who has severe strabismus (cross eyes).  Children who grow with strabismus may lose function in one eye, will struggle to drive, and may never read.   After the surgery, both eyes were facing forward, and over the next months this boy will hopefully have all the opportunities of a boy with full sight.  Several women had uterine  prolapse or fibroid surgeries that brought relief and possibly prevented eventual cancers.  And several men had prostate surgeries that removed catheters, restoring normal function for the first time in years.  For those 150 patients, and the families who saw the relief and recovery, this is literally life changing - and in a few cases possibly even life saving.