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This afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame met with Garreth Wood, Chairman of The Wood Foundation, and David Knoop, CEO of The Wood Foundation Africa. Their discussions focused on the Foundation’s longstanding partnership with Rwanda, including its investments in the tea sector, as well as the work of Kids Operating Room, the global health charity co-founded by Garreth and Nicola Wood to expand access to safe pediatric surgery.

This week the paediatric surgeons at Parirenyatwa helped a little patients with cancer in BOTH kidneys. Wilms tumor is one of the commonest cancers in children and usually affects one kidney. Paediatric surgeons, Dr Muparadzi and Dr Moyo led a team of specialists who managed to perform a nephron sparing operation on one kidney and a radical nephrectomy on the other kidney. This highly specialized operation, the first of its kind at Parirenyatwa Hospital, ensures that the child is free from cancer but still has enough normal kidney tissue to be able to survive without requiring dialysis. Although cancer is a devastating diagnosis for any family, with the proper care, children are able to recover and be cured. Hats off to the surgeons, anaesthetists and nursing staff at Parirenyatwa. And thank you to our friends, @KidsOperating for equipping the children's theatre at Parirenyatwa. Lives are being saved in this theatre.

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WE DID IT! 🎉💛 Fundraising target reached. Impact doubled. More kids getting the surgery they need. Thank you for making it happen. ✨

ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT to double your impact! 🎁 Your gift could change a child’s future. 💛 Let’s make safe surgery possible. ✨ 🌟bit.ly/4pJ8WZZ🌟

Part of the Zim team at the COSESCA 2025 FCS examinations, AGM and Scientific Conference in Bujumbura, Burundi. @cosecsa has been instrumental in training thousands of specialists across more than a dozen countries across Africa, ultimately increasing access to safe surgical care to millions of people on the continent. Tag the surgeon you can recognize in the comments! @Preciousgtmc @WomenSurgAfr @cosecsa @KidsOperating @MoHCCZim @AbucSurgery @surgsoczw

Surgery un newborns requires specialized equipment, temperature controlled theatres, gentle nurses and highly trained anesthetic teams. We are grateful to our partners @KidsOperating who installed beautiful, well equipped theatres at Sally Mugabe Children’s Hospital. Our work is made easier as a result of your generous efforts.

A few words from the wonderful @dr_mairopa... ❤️⭐️✨ Every donation made through our Big Give page this week will be doubled, helping more children get the surgery they need. 💛 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4pJ8WZZ

Our Big Give Christmas Challenge is LIVE! 🎄✨ Donate to our Big Give page by 9 Dec and your gift will be matched. Double the impact for children who need life-saving surgery. 💛 Give once, help twice. ✨🎁🎁✨ 👉bit.ly/4pJ8WZZ

Wait… that’s one of OUR operating theatres!!! Absolutely magical to see the life-changing things happening inside the theatres we’ve installed 🥰✨

Watch as surgeons and nurses sing praises in the operating theatre while performing a long and challenging brain surgery on a 13-year-old girl.

Wait… that’s one of OUR Kids Operating Rooms!!! Absolutely magical to see the life-changing things happening inside the theatres we’ve installed. 🥰

Join COSECSA’s pre-conference workshops ahead of the December 2025 Scientific Conference in Bujumbura Topics include: • Global Surgery • Non-Technical Skills • Trauma Resuscitation in Kids More info & to register: abuc.org/workshops/ #COSECSA2025 #TogetherInBujumbura

📍 Harare, Zimbabwe. We provide the right spaces, tools, training - then the local surgical teams deliver the care to the children that need it. 💙 Hundreds of thousands of children have had their lives saved, improved, and changed forever. And we’re just getting started. 🙌

Every child deserves safe surgery. Every child deserves the chance to grow and live their life to the full. On #WorldPatientSafetyDay, we stand for safe care for every newborn and child. 💛

Everyone at Kids Operating Room was deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Kondjela Hamunyela - Namibia’s first state paediatric surgeon&a fearless pioneer for children’s health. 🗣️ “For me surgery isn’t just a job. It’s about making a difference to children and families’ lives."

Great news... 🇧🇮 Our operating room in Burundi - which will be the country's 1st EVER dedicated paediatric theatre - is now en route to the Kamenge Military Hospital. 🙌 🙏 It will be installed later this year - and will give children here access to world-class surgical care.

Good luck to our 14 incredible scholars and all @cosecsa candidates taking their exams! ✨ Every step that you take brings us closer to a future where every child can have access to the safe surgery they deserve. 🌍💛

We think its the best investment one could ever make. 👏 Thank you so much @carlmoon for your life-changing support.

Fantastic news… 🇹🇿 Thanks to @carlmoon, we’re bringing a state-of-the-art paediatric operating room to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. Children who’ve waited months or years for surgery will finally get the timely care they deserve. 💙 Thank you Carl. 🙏