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.

• 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.