The goal of the Silver Service Children's Foundation is to provide the best in pediatric orthopedic surgical care to the underserved children of Colombia and other countries in South America at no cost to the family. Since October 1992, the Silver Service Children’s Foundation has been traveling to The Fundacion Hospital San Jose de Buga, in Buga Colombia to perform a week of orthopedic surgeries.
Clinics are held to evaluate and treat children with a variety of orthopaedic conditions – club feet, congenital hip dislocations as well as congenital and acquired orthopaedic conditions. On each trip to Colombia approximately 250 children are examined in our clinics and 35-40 children receive surgical procedures. All care is provided free of charge. To provide this care, we must bring all the first quality supplies necessary for surgery, including, suture, sterile packs, implants, instruments, medications, anesthesia supplies and casting materials from the United States. We rely entirely on donations for these supplies. Equally important is the support we receive from Casa de Colombia, a charitable organization, formed to help Colombian children. The Silver Service Children’s Foundation is incorporated in the State of Illinois and is exempt from federal income tax under the Internal Revenue Code described in section 501 (C) (3), identification number- # 36-3960644.
