What we do

Seeking to educate and equip developing nations to meet the needs of their own children...

With a goal to mobilize individuals and communities within the developing nations where we work, CCCI offers support to local organizations rather than creating American-run organizations in-country. Working directly with local individuals, we are able to design programs that specifically meet the needs of the children in the community, providing the initial equipment, monies, and training, and then supporting these individuals as they serve their neighbors.

Recognizing that each country has different needs, CCCI operations vary in nature. However, our programs do fall under two categories: pediatric medical training and care of orphaned or neglected children.

Medical Programs

CCCI establishes alliances between hospitals and doctors in developing countries and medical professionals in the United States. Through on-site training and donations of equipment, CCCI helps to create specialty programs abroad and then continues the education of national doctors and nurses by arranging and sponsoring individual training sessions with hospitals in the US. Additionally, CCCI selects specific pediatric teaching cases to bring to the US, providing surgeries gratis to children whose conditions are inoperable in their native countries. These children are generally accompanied by medical professionals, who observe the surgeries and follow their surgeons for a week of on-site training.

Orphan Programs

CCCI helped found and continues to support an organization (Children's Cross Connection Ethiopia) run by locals in southern Ethiopia, whose operations target disadvantaged and orphaned children in their community. In addition to supporting CCCE at large, CCCI also sponsors an orphanage for children of HIV/AIDS victims.