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What is an Operation
Rainbow Mission?
Operation Rainbow conducts volunteer medical missions
throughout the world each year. A typical year includes
10 to 12 trips to any of the countries Operation
Rainbow currently serves. The locations are in developing
countries, transitional countries, or in poor areas
of developed nations. The trips are 100 % working
missions. The trips are nondenominational medical
and humanitarian exchange trips. Each provides a
chance for working professionals to exchange ideas,
and to learn about each other's cultures while providing
free humanitarian medical services to needy children.
Mission Teams
The mission teams are small by design - between
8 and 25 members participate. The teams spend working
and meal time together. The experience is both rewarding
and challenging. In addition to reviewing medical
skills, participants are encouraged to prepare for
the physical adjustments of the trip as well as
the emotional impact of working in this challenging
environment.
Operation Rainbow focuses its mission work within
two specialties or divisions: Orthopedic Surgery
(since 1988) and Plastic Surgery (since 1978). Since
the mission goals always include addressing needs
specific to a given location, specialties other
than these two are often invited to join the Rainbow
Team for the specified needs. The list of team member
categories represents the minimum requirements for
participation on a Rainbow Team.
Amazingly, the average single patient cost to the
organization - including preoperative, operative
and postoperative care - is under $850. In an average
year, the Rainbow team provides over $5 million
worth of free surgical services to over 1,000 children.
Since 1978, we have provided life-changing surgery
to over 7,000 children.
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Rainbow, Inc.
4200 Park Blvd, PMB 157,
Oakland, CA 94602.
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