Four years later, a glimpse into your impact with Watsi

At Watsi, we feel honored each day to team up with the world’s best & brightest to bring medical care to even the most remote communities around the world. Because, no matter who you are or where you were born — we all deserve a full shot at life.

If you talk to 50 different people about how to best measure the impact of global organizations like Watsi, you're likely to get 50 different answers. But we've narrowed in on a radically simple approach: just ask our patients.

Four years ago, when we asked Maung and his wife what they hoped for after his treatment, he told us he wanted to return to work, save money, and have a house for his family. Now four years after our Watsi community supported Maung’s life-saving surgery,?we visited his rural village?along the Burma border. He is now healthy and thriving. Not only has Maung returned to work and has a home for his family, but he is giving back—building their community’s new school that his children will soon attend.?Brick by brick, this is the world we are building.?And it is going to take all of us.

In 2016, Maung started to feel unwell. Still, two years later, he had not been able to visit a doctor and his condition had now left Maung bedridden. With young children and no other support, his wife became their family’s sole breadwinner losing all hope that her husband would survive.

Finally, with the help of?our local medical partner BCMF, Maung made it to a hospital where?people from all around the world came together?on Watsi to fund his bladder surgery. As he was healing, his wife told us,?“I am very happy to see that my husband is alive."

Maung's story is not yet the reality for everyone. An estimated 17 million?lives are lost each year that could have been saved with access to safe surgery. But, our community is working every day to make another reality possible: a world with health for all. Today your generosity extends far and wide, supporting a global network of trusted local medical partners serving patients from across 29 countries providing life-saving healthcare to communities and people living in many of the world's hardest-to-reach places.

We're filled with gratitude and joy ? for all the good health made possible for families like Maung's around the world in 2022. We invite you to join in with a?special end-of-year donation?to help another patient build a big life and brighter future.