You may know that my friends in Iraq at PLC have recently completed "Remedy Mission," a project where they partnered with doctors and technicians from around the world to work for 2 weeks in order to perform heart surgeries on about 25 kids in their hometown.

To put this in perspective, it would take PLC almost a year to save that many kids "the old fashioned way" (by sending them out of the country to Turkey to have the surgery). In addition, the local doctors are being trained. The hope and goal is that Kurdish/Iraq doctors will be self-sufficient in heart surgery in 5 years.

The wonderful news is that, due to a lot of hard work and a lot of generous people, the project was a huge success and many families are now celebrating a life that was previously considered lost.

However, not all stories have happy endings. Click here for a challenging glimpse into the world of PLC.