Karime & Maribel

Karime & Maribel are young patients who we met at the Tijuana garbage dump. Both young girls had congenital heart defects and were in need of surgery. HHAB partnered with Healing the Children, another non-profit organization, to bring these two little girls to Los Angeles for their surgeries in November 2004. Healing the Children placed Karime and Maribel with a Spanish-speaking foster family in Los Angeles, and their surgeries were donated by Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA.