A Carmel woman is making a huge difference in a nation struggling with poverty and inspiring people in her circle locally to take action and be part of a solution.
Stazzone launched a massive humanitarian effort over a decade ago and founded the"Pediatric Orthopedic Project," or POP.Stazzone volunteers her time running the organization, but she also spends much of her year coordinating the resources, medical staff, funding, travel plans and other logistics to make annual trips from Indiana to Santiago, Dominican Republic to provide surgeries for roughly seven to ten children each year.
In addition to performing surgeries, they train Dominican doctors and nurses, so they can carry on the work and help even more children year-round. Each year that Stazzone's POP team returns to Dominican Republic for its medical mission, it holds a reunion celebration for past patients.
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