Program areas at Project Life International
Nepal is a landlocked, mountainous country where most people cannnot access surgical care. Training of surgeons is paramount. Project Life is working with nepalese plastic surgeons to increase surgical education and patient care. Hands on surgical education, travel fellowships, live surgery courses, and didactics were the pillars of training. Surgeons are taught advanced surgical concepts that they reproduce independently.
Rwanda is a low income country with far too few surgeons to provide the care needed for the population. Project Life works by providing on the ground, direct surgical education, technical support, and providing free surgeries to hundreds of patients each year. In 2023 Project Life provided impoverished patients with hundreds of free surgeries. Our dual goal is surgeon education and direct patient care. Project Life provided payment for surgery, testing and hospital costs. Successful surgeries offer hope and reinforce trust in health care systems within the community. Surgeries were performed by dr wayne manana, dr shankar rai, dr pramila shakya, dr david shaye, dr paul thistle and many others.reading and early childhood education is an investment in every child. Project Life supports mobile libraries to reach rural rwandan communities and engage children in reading at an early age.
In zimbabwe, even the most basic health care is lacking. Project Life provides surgeons to offer free surgical care for children with cleft lip and palate deformities, and other facial deformities. Project Life supports zimbabwean surgeons through educational initiatives. Project Life built infrastructure that expands surgical possibilities. This included patient care spaces, clinics, surgical teaching centers, operating rooms, and hospital renovations in zimbabwe. These capital projects are carefully selected to maximize expansion of patient care and access to surgery.