Posts from 2025
Celebrating a Legacy of Service: UC Davis and Rotaplast
Davis, California
For decades, Rotaplast and the University of California, Davis have shared a powerful and enduring partnership—united by a common purpose: to deliver life-changing surgical care to communities in need ar... Read More »
Through Our Eyes: A Student’s Journey with Rotaplast
Chittagong, Bangladesh
This is our 10th surgery and education trip to Chittagong, Bangladesh. We are lucky to have worked with our friends and humanitarian conspirators the Rotary Club of Agrabad for over a decade. We are thrill... Read More »
Stories from the Ward
Faridabad, India
A teenage girl with burn contractures on her wrist, elbow, and knee from an untreated accident as a baby arrived at the clinic with her sister, both burdened by exhaustion and hesitant to trust. They were ... Read More »
Dental Care & Cleft Counseling
Faridabad, India
Cleft lip and palate deformities can result from genetic disorders or syndromes. As technology and databases improve, our understanding of genetic markers and risk factors for these conditions continues to... Read More »
Day 9 – Luz
Medellin, Colombia
We did some very important things today. Not only the life-changing surgeries, but also finding a child with an undiagnosed fatal heart condition that we were able to get a STAT work-up and immediate trans... Read More »
Day 1 – Unpacking and Clinic
Medellin, Colombia
The day started with the Rotaplast team to receive the first 47 patients, all between the ages of 7-month-old to 42 years old. These patients traveled from remote locations with hopes of achieving the drea... Read More »
Latest From Around The World
The Essential Elements of...
Luxor, Egypt
This mission to Luxor involved a team of 22 people from the US, 3 surgeons from Egypt, local Rotarian hosts, many local volunteers and translators plus local hospital staff. While some team members had bee... Read More »
Global Scholars
Luxor, Egypt
As part of the new Education Committee approved by the Rotaplast Board, we piloted the Rotaplast Global Scholars Program on five recent missions over the past year. This initiative provided clinical experi... Read More »