Our Name Says It All
Healing the Children Rocky Mountains
Healing the Children Rocky Mountains is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing medical care to children around the world born with cleft lip, cleft palate, and deafness, to whom specialized medical care is not available. We do this through the help of our volunteer medical teams who are largely from Colorado and Utah, and from people like you. HTCRM is a 501(c)(3) organization and has no paid staff. Every dollar donated helps children receive the care they desperately need.
Ander was born with a bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate. At 3 months old he was an ideal candidate for surgery. The hope is to be able to fix both defects, at different times, before he would naturally learn to talk. If done in this manner he may never learn the bad speech habits one learns due to the defect. Ander came to us wearing a prosthetic palate guard which helps bring the palate together, slowly closing the gap in the palate, while he grows until he's big enough for surgery. This is very rare to see such a prosthetic in a third world country but it will help him have a smaller gap in his palate when it comes time for his second surgery this fall. We were able to perform repair of his bilateral cleft lip during this mission.
