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april 17 5pm - 6pm PST Celebrating our sweet 16th year of Mending Kids Livestream at: mki.cbo.io M e n di n gki ds.o rg
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DEAR O U R cO R E
FRIENDS，
As the arrival of the virus spread
p r o g ra m S
illness, chaos and uncertainty last
year, Mending Kids, drew on its
vast surgical mission experience to
chart a course that would help us
weather this time in our collective
OV E RSE AS IND IV ID UA L
crisis. In spite of the challenges that SU RGI c A L S U RG IcA L c A R E
we have all faced, we continued
to mend children, provided online M I SSI O N INT L & U S
symposiums that trained hundreds
of medical providers, delivered PPE Our assembled surgical teams Children with complex cases are
and ventilators to frontline workers
travel to developing countries on flown to the United States, or to our
and organizations serving vulnerable
communities, sent humanitarian specialized missions to mend partner hospitals in India, Israel,
medical supplies to Armenia all while children in need of life-saving and the other countries that have
preparing for our 8th Hometown
Mission as soon as it is safe to do so.
surgeries, and to train local met our stringent requirements for
Like you, we have adapted and made changes. We made it through a year like none other surgical staff to create sustainable specialty care.
and look forward to a sweet 16th year of service in the name of underserved and deserving programs.
children everywhere.
Tonight, we celebrate 3 individuals who represent all that mending kids stands for: Hope
and resilience, love and advocacy, and mending and restoring. A survivor who beat
catastrophic odds, an advocate who tirelessly champions our work, and a surgeon who has
H O M E TOW N T RA INING,
restored hundreds of children’s futures. M I SSI O N & R ES E A RC H &
To date, Mending Kids has restored the futures of 4510 children from 68 countries. M E N D U. S . E D U c AT IO N
Every opportunity we have to get together whether virtual or in person, is an opportunity to
reunite. It is an opportunity to inspire, to motivate, to share our accomplishments, but most We provide outpatient surgical We present global online
importantly, it is an opportunity to save a child’s life; quite realistically, one we will never
meet. care to children living in the symposiums to train hundreds of
United States who do not have medical providers at a time through
We may not be able to save the world but tonight, with your help, we can save someone’s
access to care by teaming up an exchange of knowledge they
life and the universe that comes with it.
Together, we are Mending Kids. with volunteer surgeons, nursing may not have access to and we
staff and local surgical centers. work with smart glass technology
to assist virtually in surgery.
Executive Director
Isabelle Fox.
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GA L A 2 0 2 1 B O A R D O F D I R E c TO R S
cO M M I T T E E OFFIcERS
ROBINSON MOORE RANA GEBRAN
President Treasurer
EVENT cHAIR cO M M I T T E E
Director of Sales Financial Services Profes-
Cardconnect sional
MEMBERS
New York Life
CARMELA DE
BROUWER LORI BECKWITH
Carmela de Brouwer Deidre Bailey Vice-President Secretary
Mending Kids board member Lori Beckwith Realtor Attorney
Rana Gebran Keller Williams Realty Sotheby’s International Realty
Dorothy Lucey
Elisa Montgomery
Bobbe Moore MEMBERS
Julie Pollum ROBERT (MATT) DOROTHY LUCEY AYAL WILLNER, MD
Jorge Saud BERNSTEIN, MD Reporter Pediatric Surgeon
Lydia Valenta Media Personality Southern California
Chief of Staff
Luann Williams Shriners Hospital Ear, Nose and Throat
ANDRE PANOSSIAN, MD
ALLEN CHURCHILL Plastic Surgeon EVAN ZAHN, MD
Strategic Partner Manager Pediatric Reconstructive Director, Congenital
Google Surgery Heart Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical
MENDING KIDS TEAM JASON FRISCHER, MD RICHARD TABURA Center
Director, Colorectal Center Attorney
Isabel Dominguez Icy Jingyi Leng
Cincinnati Children’s Hos- Greenburg Traurig LLP
Social Media & Marketing Consultant Graphic Designer & Developer
pital
Cristina Farrut Chaoyi Liu
Director of Mission Services Social & Financial Services Manager
Isabelle Fox Miles Melamed
E M E R I T U S B OA R D M E M B E R
Executive Director Program Intern
JULIA HANS ROBYN MOORE
Adrienne Johnson Jennifer Nguyen Emeritus & Founding Board Member Emeritus Board Member
PR Consultant Program Intern
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EVENT HOSTS S P E c I A L T H A N K S TO
Dorothy Lucey - Mending Kids Board Member
O U R M I RAc L E M A K E RS :
Zack Krone - Our amazing MC from California Coast
Marie Ferro, George Ayrouth from MVT Productions, Freight-
Auctions
pal, Marcello and Julian Reyes, James Kimbal-Henderson, the
Tweed-Simmons Family, Cindy Kay, Jean Paul Mitchell Systems,
Alison Darnell, Los Angeles Lakers, Paige Johnston, Ana Ma-
ria Foods, Dominique Debroux, Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey,
SPEcIAL GUESTS Sam Savoia, Patrick Johnston Ceramics, 4 Winds Winery, AJA
Vineyards, Michael Barnes, Venom Wines, Bronca, Clos Solène
Winery, Chadwell Heather, Copia Vineyards & Winery, Elite Island
Gene Simmons
Resorts, Kartar Diamond, Feng Shui Solutions, Lynne Friedman,
Dr. Mehmet Oz
FitEats, Greg & Gillian Frame, Claire Fullerton, Emilio Estevez,
Dr. Cathy Shin
Gayle Hagegard, In-N-Out Burger, L.A. Rocks, Inc., L’Aventure
Sophie Simmons Winery, Linne Calodo Cellars, Shanti Louks, Malibu Farm Restau-
Marcello Reyes rant & Bar, Malibu Table Maven, Malpaso Productions, Milk Bar,
Chase Bryant Bobbe Moore, Naomi & Don Morshead, Karen Pollum, Julie &
McKenna Grace Richard Pollum, PRP Wine International, Rooftop Cinema Club,
Peter R. Root, Samy’s Photo School, Spirit Airlines, Sugarfina,TH
Estate Wines, The Bungalow Ltd. Home Comfort, The Ritz-Carlton
Marina del Rey, Jeff Urton, VOX DJ’s, Warner Bros., Analily Park,
OPENING MUSIc Heather Wildman, Matt Hanover Art Experience, Viktor Klinger
' S ta n d b y m e '
Photography, Dylan Ross, Diisco Burger Boards, The Word The-
ater, Alexis Crump. Anna Maria Di Cicco, Fiore di Pasta, Katha-
rine Ross, and Elijon Photography.
By Moon Blu, featuring Martha Thatcher
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TO G E T H E R ,
WE ARE
MENDING KIDS
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cO U N T R I E S S E R V E D
Mending Kids provides free life-saving surgical care to
sick children worldwide by deploying volunteer medical
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teams and educating communities to become medically
self-sustaining.
Our volunteer medical teams donate their time and
services to care for children while educating local SURGIcAL MISSION TRIPS
medical staff.
cO M P L E T E D
4,510
cHILDREN MENDED
AS OF MARcH 2021
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Such as Juliana, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was flown
to Tanzania to join a Cardiac Overseas Surgical Mission and received life-
saving heart surgery while Mending Kids was there.
M O N T H LY $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1000 - whatever
the amount – it is the most effective life-saving
GIVING way to help us reach our 5,000th Mended Kid.
Join our dedicated group of monthly supporters
at mendingkids.org or text MENDING to 44321 to
join Kaleidoscope today.
Click to Join Now
JOIN OUR
K A L E I D O S cO P E
& B E c O M E A M O N T H LY M E M B E R
By committing to join our monthly giving program, you provide Mending
Kids with the ability to deliver life-saving surgeries to children consistently.
This matters because dedicated and dependable donors joining forces,
like butterflies in a Kaleidoscope, allows us to fly a waiting child from an
underserved country to where they can receive the specialized pediatric
surgical care that they need.
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WA I T I N G ABAH
Abah is a 3-year-old girl from Cameroon. She was diagnosed with a
LIST serve case of scoliosis in 2018, but the correct surgery is not available
in her country. Abah is a very playful and talkative young girl. She lives
KIDS
with her mother, grandmother, her aunt, and three cousins. She loves to
play games, sing, and dance. Abah has waited three years to receive
surgery and is in constant pain and
discomfort. She is only able to
wear a certain kind of dress that
covers the large curve in her
spine. Her family hopes she
can get help soon so she
can begin to live a normal,
comfortable life.
F R A N S LY
M I RAc L E Fransly is a 2 year-old-
Miracle is a vivacious 6-year-old girl from Nigeria, in need of open-heart girl from Nicaragua with a
surgery. She loves writing, reading, and listening to children’s Bible stories. hemangioma on her upper lip
She loves to sing and dance with her family. Her favorite subjects are that continues to grow as she gets
Math and English and she hopes to become a doctor when she grows up. older. She was referred by former
Miracle’s extremely complex medical condition is severely delaying her Mending Kids patient, Walter Mejia.
growth and future. Miracle needs a miracle. Fransly lives with her mother and father and
loves playing with her dolls and riding horses. Her family
hopes Mending Kids can help Fransly get her smile back
Click to Donation Now so she can live a normal, happy life.
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OUR HEROES
ard
L O V E Aw
Nick SImmonS
Mending Kids Volunteer & Supporter
Nick Simmons is a writer, musician, musical director, and
television personality best known for appearing on the
television show Gene Simmons Family Jewels on A&E for
seven seasons. He has written articles for Vice, Elite Daily,
Esquire, and The Huffington Post. Nick has volunteered for
wa r d many Hometown Missions, Hike2Mend events, and is honored
HopE A for his longtime support of and advocacy for Mending Kids.
DA N N A RA M O N
Former Patient of Mending Kids
Danna is a courageous 16-year-old former patient from Ecuador. In 2004,
when Danna was just 3 months old her family came across Mending Kids
and applied for surgical care in hopes of mending Danna’s heart. Danna
and her family traveled to the US, where she was treated at UCLA for
several months and underwent multiple complex surgeries.
After a lengthy hospital stay filled with ups and downs Danna finally
recovered and has grown to be a healthy teenager. Danna and her family
eventually moved to New York where she now attends New Dorp High
School. Dana hopes to become a neonatologist or pediatric surgeon and
says “it has always been my wish to give back a little of the help I received
when I needed it.” We honor Danna this year for her bravery, her journey,
and her bright future.
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MEnd A
D R . A N D R E PA N O S S I A N
Plastic Surgeon & Mending Kids Board Member
Dr. Andre Panossian is an internationally recognized, board-certified
plastic surgeon specializing in craniofacial surgery, facial paralysis, and
reconstructive surgery for the face, breast, and body.
Dr. Panossian is additionally one of three top surgical experts in the United
States who treats a rare condition called neurofibromatosis. He has been
a volunteer surgeon with Mending Kids for 10 plus years and is a member
of our Board of Directors. He participates annually in our Hometown
Mission and has treated many of our international surgical care patients
who traveled to the U.S. for care. He also initiated Mending Kids' first
surgical mission to Armenia in 2015. What started as a solo effort to treat
underserved pediatric patients in his cultural homeland soon expanded to
become a fully-staffed, annual weeklong pilgrimage to provide surgeries as
well as an instructional for medical students and doctors in the capital city TO D R . A N D R E PA N O S S I A N
of Yerevan.
Our dearest son, to say that we are proud of you and your accomplishments
is an understatement. You have given us so many reasons to be proud of
the man that you have become, but the proudest thus far is the honor of
being your parents. Your devotion to your patients and your career has
been more than inspirational. You are doing what you were always born to
do and for that, we admire you. We hope that you know how appreciated
you are by your family, friends and especially your patients whose lives you
have impacted and changed forever.
- Arik & Nancy Panossian
21I M AG I N E
JOINING US
ON A MISSION
Step out of your comfort zone and into a world of mending, W H AT D O E S Y O U R T R I P & T E A M
and discover how your life changes when you are part of a F E E I N c LU D E :
team that helps save the lives of children!
2021 - 2022 mission trips to be announced soon. Economy roundtrip airfare,
breakfast & lunch, lodging,
40-60 volunteer service hours,
Africa ($5,200) a set of Mending Kids scrubs, and
9 days / 8 nights Namibia, Tanzania a life-changing experience that you will never forget.
South America & Eurasia ($4,200)
8 days / 7 nights Peru, Armenia
Mending Kids will follow the guidelines of the CDC and Mission
Central America ($3,200)
countries travel & quarantine protocols. All volunteers will need to
8 days / 7 nights Guatemala, Honduras
be vaccinated; including for COVID. Mission Calendar and dates are
subject to change.U
Mend US is our new program that will allow qualifying patients across the United
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States to have year-round access to outpatient surgeries.
Mend U.S. is our local program that will allow qualifying patients across
the United States to have year-round access to outpatient surgeries.
Mend U.S. grew out of our recognition that some children from
underserved communities across the U.S. are unable to receive the
surgeries they need as insurance companies consider these to be
“non-life threatening” or “elective” and therefore not covered.
That is a tough message to tell a child who has a large, hairy
nevus on his face or a little girl in need of cleft-
nose reconstruction. Often, these children
are targets of bullying and harassment,
which can further lead them to self-
Ever
harm. These surgeries are a necessity
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To sign up, please contact:
hello@mendingkids.org
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MENDING KIDS
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EVENTS
Join us by attending,
volunteering, or simply
spreading the word about our
events throughout the year, so
we can continue to mend kids at
home and abroad.
WINE 30
S W I R L , S I P, R E P E AT !
Wine 30 is our quarterly Hike to Mend is our
wine tasting events annual campaign
featuring different honoring the journey
vineyards. Stay tuned that a parent makes to
for our next Wine 30 gain access to surgical
announcement! care for their child.
28 29IN MEMORIAM
It is with shock and sadness that
we mourn the loss and honor the
memory of Dr. McCoy Moretz.
A long time Mending Kids
volunteer, surgeon, life saver,
and supporter. May he rest in
peace knowing that he made a
difference in this world.
MAKING LIFE
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G I V I N G & R E c E I V I N G.
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