At Little Baby Face Foundation, charitable donations remove the financial barriers that prevent children from accessing reconstructive surgery. While medical expertise is donated, contributions fund the real-world costs hospitals cannot waive, making comprehensive, no-cost care possible for families.
At-a-Glance: What Your Gift Helps Provide
- Surgery and hospital costs (operating room fees, supplies, anesthesia, recovery support)
- Travel support (airfare/transportation and local transit for a child and parent)
- Lodging during treatment (safe accommodations and basic needs while healing)
- Follow-up care (appointments, testing, imaging, and additional procedures when needed)
Why Your Donation Matters: Funding a Child's Surgery
When you give through charitable donations, you help cover the essential costs that make life-changing reconstructive surgery possible for a child. At Little Baby Face Foundation (LBFF), your gift supports surgery, anesthesia, hospital fees, travel, lodging, and follow-up care. Families never receive a bill for the help they need.
How charitable donations Create Real Change for Children
Every day, families around the world search for hope. They are not seeking cosmetic fixes, but functional care that
helps their children hear, breathe, eat, and smile with confidence. When you support LBFF through charitable
donations, you become part of that transformation.
We provide comprehensive, no-cost reconstructive surgery for children with facial differences. Volunteer surgeons
contribute their time and expertise, and your gift fuels the essential costs that make treatment possible.
This is where your impact becomes extraordinary.
Where Your Gift Goes: A Clear Breakdown of Care Costs
Families accepted into our program receive full wraparound support. Your charitable donations make that possible. Here's how your generosity helps cover the expenses that support a child's healing journey.
1. Surgical and Hospital Fees
Volunteer surgeons donate their time, but hospitals cannot waive costs.
Your donations help fund:
- Operating room fees
- Surgical supplies
- Anesthesia and monitoring
- Post-operative care
These essential costs ensure a child receives safe, world-class treatment.
2. Travel Support for Families
Many children must travel long distances, sometimes internationally, to reach New York City for care.
Your contributions help cover:
- Airfare or ground transportation for a child and a parent
- Travel documents
- Reliable transport between the airport, their accommodations, and the medical facility
This support often removes the biggest barrier families face.
3. Lodging During Treatment
Children may need to stay in New York for several days or weeks, depending on their treatment plan.
Your charitable donations provide:
- A comfortable, safe place to rest during recovery
- Meals provided at accommodation
- Peace of mind for parents far from home
Families can focus on healing, not logistics.
4. Follow-Up Care and Testing
Many conditions require staged surgeries or ongoing evaluations.
Your support ensures funding for:
- Follow-up appointments
- Testing and imaging
- Diagnostic services
- Additional procedures when needed
Children receive full, continuous care up to the age of 21, rather than a one-time intervention.
Why Transparency Matters to Us and to You
We believe donors deserve clarity. LBFF's care model is built on trust.
- Surgeon time is donated.
- Families pay nothing.
- Your donations fund the essential costs that cannot be donated.
What One Gift Can Do: The Power of Showing up
Imagine a parent opening an acceptance email from LBFF. For the first time, they feel real hope. Travel, lodging,
surgery, and follow-up care once impossible to afford are now within reach.
That moment exists because someone chose to show up.
A Snapshot of Your Impact:
- $50/month helps cover travel and lodging for a child and parent, removing the stress of getting to and staying near care.
- $1,000/year helps fund essential hospital-related expenses, including operating room fees and anesthesia that make surgery possible.
- $2,500 helps support major components of a child's surgical journey, bringing together hospital care, recovery, and follow-up needs.
The Human Impact: A Child's Journey
The heart of LBFF lies in the children we serve. Families share stories of restored hearing, improved breathing, repaired facial structures, and renewed confidence. Thanks to charitable donations, parents who once felt alone feel supported. Children who once struggled to eat or speak can thrive.
Why charitable donations Make LBFF's Model Work
Unlike short-term medical missions, our approach brings children to state-of-the-art facilities where specialists provide comprehensive, personalized care. Because medical expertise is donated, your gift goes further.
- It supports the essential expenses required for high-quality treatment.
- It removes financial barriers for families.
- It ensures children receive care equal to what any child deserves.
How to Support a Child's Surgery Today
If you’re inspired by what’s possible when compassion meets action, we invite you to join us. Your gift ensures no child is turned away because of cost, distance, or circumstance.
Rather than reimbursing families after the fact, donations eliminate the cost barrier upfront. With surgeon time donated, contributions fund the essential expenses behind safe, world-class care: hospital fees, anesthesia, travel, lodging, and follow-up support through age 21.
- Families accepted for care never receive a bill from LBFF for the covered costs.
- Volunteer surgeons donate their expertise; donations fund the expenses hospitals and travel require.
- Your support helps deliver complete care, not just a single moment of treatment.
