In conjunction with our teaching projects, CCCI brings to the States children with conditions inoperable in their native countries, securing surgeons and hospitals to provide gratis treatment. In order to qualify for acceptance, the case must be classified as a "teaching" case, one through which either medical professionals at the host hospital can observe rare conditions, or medical professionals in our teaching projects can receive further training by accompanying the child to the States and observing the surgery.

All expenses outside those waved by the surgeon and hospital are covered by CCCI, in order to ensure the child services at no cost to his/her family. Our volunteers serve as host families for the duration of the visit, arrange for interpreters and hospital sitters, and create a loving community for the children (learn how you can volunteer).

When a child is accompanied by a medical professional from their home country, s/he shadows the surgeon for one to two weeks, observing and picking up new techniques to then apply to his/her own practice in El Salvador.