Kids Operating Room (KidsOR)

Kids Operating Room is a global health charity solely dedicated to bringing safe surgery to children, no matter where they are born. We address the global inequity in access to surgery, so that every child has access to the life-saving care they deserve. Our goal is to build solar-powered paediatric surgical facilities around the world to help address the global burden of disease and trauma - children's surgical conditions kill more kids each year than TB, Malaria and HIV combined. As a non-profit organisation, KidsOR equips local surgeons with the tools they need to save lives, including installing operating rooms and providing scholarships to train paediatric surgeons. We don't do mission work, we build healthcare capacity to be sustainable. In just 8 years, we have installed over 100 operating rooms and counting in 36 countries, enabling capacity for more than 700,000 children to receive care. Today over 200,000 children can receive care every year at one of our partner facilities. Our approach enables local surgical teams to care for more children, operate on younger and smaller patients, treat children safely, improve mortality outcomes and prevent disability.