Twenty-three medical professionals are heading abroad for a volunteer mission in Kenya.
The health-care staff are heading to Mombasa to help in treating kids who’re born with facial deformities comparable to cleft palates.
The group is volunteering with Operation Rainbow Canada, which has been serving to kids world wide for greater than 25 years however has been on a pause for the reason that pandemic.
“We fix the children and it’s very emotional,” Dr. Kimit Rai, a beauty surgeon out of New Westminster, stated. “I felt touched in my heart and it feels good to help people. I am very excited (for this trip).”
The crew of 23 together with surgeons, nurses and medical assistants shall be at a hospital for ten days within the east African metropolis.
This mission crew is a primary for Operation Rainbow Canada as each member who going is from B.C.
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B.C. Children’s Hospital nurse Ryan Kean is a part of the crew that’s travelling. He advised Global News the work is humbling and rewarding.
“The passion that (comes) out of some of these families … some of them are walking miles and miles just to get to the hospital where we doing our work. (It is) very, very humbling,” Kean stated.
“They’re so appreciative, they feel so rewarded that we’re there to provide this opportunity (that) they may not get for a long time. (It) hits home.”
Rai, who can also be Operation Rainbow Canada’s founder, stated offering new smiles to greater than 2,000 kids is what the non-profit group is all about.
“It’s not a financial benefit. It’s emotional and a real sense of feeling good that you did good for someone. I think if we all do that, we’d be a happier world,” he stated.
Operation Rainbow Canada stated it’s taking donations online, and is all the time in search of new volunteers.
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