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Haiti Earthquake Disaster


Haiti Earthquake Response Update: VCL Medical Team in Port Au Prince and sending in Medical Supplies


We are donating an Anesthesia Machine to the Diquini Hospital. It will be there when the team arrives. A huge thank you to Wrapit Packit Shipit of Huntington Beach, CA for providing packing and crating at cost. Also a thank you to Benevolence Beyond Politics for helping to coordinate air freight transportation for this much needed machine.


We are also donating shipping for 1,300 lbs. of medical bed linens, set for St. Damien’s Hospital and St. Helen’s Orphanage, coordinated by the NPH Family. Thank you to Alafia Airlines who is working diligently to get these linens to Haiti.


VCL medical staff going on the mission next month include Dr. Patrick Leblanc; Dr. Louisdon Pierre; Harrold Francois Joseph, Biomed engineer; and Guerline Mercredi, a Pediatric intensive care nurse.


New Aswan Heart Center

Children's Lifeline and Chain of Hope aid in opening.


Variety Children's Lifeline, in conjunction with the Chain of Hope, helps to aid in the opening of the new Aswan Heart Center in Southern Egypt. Click here for more information...



First Cardiac Hospital in Tibet

Lifeline and South East Asia Prayer Center aid in opening.


Variety Children's Lifeline, in collaboration with the South East Asia Prayer Center, is proud to announce the opening of the first ever Cardiac Hospital in Tibet.
Click here for more information...



St. Jude Hospital Fire Disaster Emergency Response Request

St. Lucia. Saint Jude Hospital Fire has Left the Hos[ital without Life Saving Equipment or Medical Supplies.


St. Lucia: The St. Jude Hospital fire disaster in September 2009 left St. Lucia with only one anesthesia machine on the entire island, which is temporary. Variety Children’s Lifeline is donating a permanent machine.


Join Variety Children's Lifeline and other non-profits in donating ambulatory operation supplies and small equipment.


Children's Lifeline Broadcasting Live via Radio this Summer & Fall

Listen for our Children's Lifeline Medical Team Lead Doctors Talk About Their Experiences During Our Live Radio Broadcasts.


Our medical teams will be broadcast LIVE via radio this Summer through Fall on the Mike Gallagher Show to support our commitment in saving the lives of children world-wide.


Please come back for details and scheduled broadcasting times. Learn more about what Variety Children's Lifeline is all about and what you can do to help save the lives of the children and their communities.



Variety Children's Lifeline Highlights for 2008:

Using six medical disciplines and promoting disease prevention measures.


  • In 2008, Lifeline sponsored 40 missions --- one every 9 days.
  • The 40 missions break down into six medical disciplines:
    • 24 Cardiac missions
    • 5 Reconstructive Surgery missions
    • 5 Clinical missions
    • 2 Neurosurgical missions
    • 2 Rehabilitative missions
    • 2 Neonatal missions
  • Variety Children’s Lifeline sponsored missions to 22 countries.
  • VCL treated more than 6,000 children, as well as over 2,000 adults.
  • VCL had over 230 medical volunteers from 17 states in the U.S.A.
  • VCL partnered with 18 U.S. Hospitals.
  • VCL performed the first joint mission with Water for Life International installing two water treatment systems in Sierra Leone while simultaneously providing clinical treatment for dysentery, worms, typhoid and malaria - all water related diseases.
    • Pastor Edward Saffa of the Door Church declared that no new typhoid cases had been detected one month after the installations were completed.
  • In early 2008, the NBC Today Show aired “New Heart, New Life,” produced by Lauren Ina, featuring VCL’s pediatric cardiac mission to Siem Reap, Cambodia.
  • In 2008, VCL overhauled its web site in order to make it more donor friendly and continuing to work on improving and updating site content regularly. Please come back for current information and news.
  • Thanks to the volunteer services of our medical teams, in 2008 each VCL dollar represented ten dollars in medical value.

Children's Lifeline Missions Map

Lifeline Medical Missions


The cost per child on a typical medical mission is approximately $1,500.


The retail value of such surgery and related expenses if done at a hospital in the US would amount to $125,000 per child - this includes hospital fees, doctor fees, pre and post-operative care, transportation, medications and more.






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