OperationRainbowCanada

07/16/2025

Some heartwarming moments from the Mombasa Mission — children and their families enjoying their colourful tops generously donated by Dex Hallwood.

Dex and his Guild are now preparing to send even more tops for upcoming surgical missions, spreading joy and comfort to children around the world. 🌍✨

04/11/2025

Meet Dex Hallwood

17 years into retirement, Dex picked up a new passion—woodturning. He transforms fallen trees into beautiful, handcrafted pieces. Dex joined the Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild (www.GVWG.ca), which is a group of like-minded woodworkers that is always seeking opportunities to support good causes. Their projects have included Beads of Courage boxes—special wooden containers for kids at the hospital receiving beads for every treatment they undergo. 🌳✨

One day, he learned about the Mombasa mission from Dr. Jaimie MacDonald, an anesthesiologist working with the ORC team. Dex was inspired. He handcrafted a dozen colourful wooden tops for children undergoing surgery. 🎨🌀

From passion to purpose. From wood to wonder. This is the power of craft and compassion.

03/19/2025

Zawadi Maringa, a 35-year-old woman, has lived her entire life with a cleft lip deformity. “Since I was born, I went to another operation mission with my mom. But my mom ran away because she feared the general anesthetic. I came alone today. I’m happy you welcomed me,” Maringa explained.

With a baby on her back, she arrived quietly at the Utange Field Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya after she heard about the cleft lip and palate camp by Operation Rainbow Canada offering free surgery.

“I came in the hope of being healed and starting a new life with a new face.”

And now, with the help of Operation Rainbow Canada, she does. ☀️🕊️

12/02/2024

Global BC's coverage of our Mombasa mission.

Global News story on the ORC mission to Mombasa, Keny

11/19/2024

Our team has completed another successful mission. About half of the team is back home from Mombasa, the rest of the crew will be home soon.

11/13/2024

This is Mombasa where our medical team is operating.

11/12/2024

Today is Day 4 in Mombasa as Operation Rainbow Canada takes on another incredible mission abroad. Our wonderful staff worked together to continue assessing and meeting the lovely patients and their families. We are excited as always to be working with a variety of children and adults, improving the quality of life of these patients. Stay tuned for the rest of our trip!

11/11/2024

Today we look at our ORC team in the operating room.

11/11/2024

This is day 2 of our Mombasa mission.

11/09/2024

Our team is up and running in Mombasa. Here's a quick look at Day 1 of the mission.

11/07/2024

And they're off! Our team is on the way to Mombasa for another medical mission.

10/29/2024

We had a very successful brunch fundraiser for our Mission the Mombasa.