Pan is a 16-year-old student in eighth grade living in Cambodia. He has four sisters and four brothers. He enjoys playing football, volleyball, and watching TV. In May 2016, Pan sustained a right distal femur fracture in a motor vehicle accident. He received Khmer traditional medicine (KTM) for the first 19 days since the accident. Since then the area has been swollen and painful, and he has been unable to walk to school. He and his brother traveled to our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre (CSC), and his doctors recommended an open reduction internal fixation surgery. The surgery will realign his femur and fix it in place with screws and a cast. The total cost of $405 covers the procedure, supplies, imaging, ten days of inpatient care, and one year of follow up visits. Following his surgery and cast removal, Pan is expected to walk easily again and return to school.

Meet Nickson, a baby boy from Uganda. He is the first child to his parents who both work as subsistence farmers, though his father sometimes works as a porter on construction sites and his mother weaves mats to earn extra income. Nickson is young but always keen and curious, looking around to observe new faces and smiling widely to those he recognizes. Nickson was born with clubfoot - his parents took him to a traditional bone setter at three months of age, but nothing about his foot changed. His mother, Rosette, used to be an athlete and would love to see Nickson grow up to be an athlete too. She got a scholarship for her primary education because of athletics and would love her child to be a great athlete and get scholarships to fund his education. With $362, Nickson will undergo surgery to have his club foot repaired. This operation will ensure that Nickson will grow up to walk easily and perhaps become an athlete like his mother. "The doctors gave me assurance that they can fix my child's foot. May God bless everyone supporting us," Nickson's mother said.