Childrens Cross Connection International

Overview

We are an international medical pediatric 501(c)(3) organization. We specialize in bringing teaching surgical teams into countries to enhance their current healthcare systems in situ bringing a more lasting benefit to the local populace. To date, we have touched the lives and bodies of thousands of children worldwide. A few cases are brought to the USA each year as teaching cases. A select number of healthcare professionals are brought to the States to learn specific procedures to take back to their home countries to implement. One of the outstanding attributes of CCCI is that we have a 100% success rate in RETURNING all foreign nationals to their home countries--something that all governments want to see. Because of this, some countries will work with us when they will not work with other organizations. We also have better success with our own Homeland Security in getting medical visas!

Mission

To bring life-changing medical care into the countries we visit and leave a last legacy wherever we go.

History

Founded in 1984, the organization today reaches worldwide from its start in El Salvador. From the eyes of the adoptive parents of a baby girl in a teeming orphanage came the dream to make the lives of children the world over healthier and more productive. Literally thousands of children's lives have been touched by CCCI's volunteers over the years as doctors and nurses have treated, taught, and loved each and every one of their patients. Also, they have taught their colleagues in the countries visited thus extending the influence of their visits many times over to patients they never saw or will see. To date, we have built hospitals, opened a living donor transplant unit, founded orphanage for HIV/AIDS survivor families, and continue our work in medical education and outreach. It is exciting, challenging work-yet we never tire of it-the smiles of the liltle ones keep us going.

Program

Education team in spine reconstruction, uro-genital surgery, urological surgery, craniofacial surgery, cardiac (rheumatic hearts), plastic surgery--El Salvador

Living donor Kidney transplant surgery program.--El Salvador

Hospital construction-Ethiopia

Craniofacial team-Tanzania

Orphanage and adoption program--Ethiopia

Rheumatic heart education program--Ethiopia/Kenya

Neurosurgery-gamma knife?--Costa Rica?

Impact

Millions of dollars worth of services rendered, equipment placed, training given in locations around the world. Just last year, we have documented $2.7 million in services rendered in various spots and in the USA, equipment placed and people given education on its use, children given life-altering surgeries or other treatment, medications given, and other life-changing services. That's just last year. We've been around for 25 years. Do the math.

Goals This Year

Spinal Team to Central America
Cardiac Team to Ethiopia
Urology Team to Central America
Cranio-facial Team to Central America
Possible neurosurgical team?
several individual cases coming to the USA for treatment
completion of hospital in Shashemanee, Ethiopia and its opening

Chief Executive

Pamela M. Rundle

Chief Executive Profile

Retired Lt. Colonel, USArmy, Instructor, Criminal Justice, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA,Associate Professor-Criminal Justice, GMI-Fairburn campus, Georgia, Founder, CCCI

Countries of Operation

Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mongolia, Tanzania, United Republic of, Colombia, Pakistan, Philippines, United States, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Cook Islands, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Republic of, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Republic of, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

States of Operation

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii