- Help a Child Face Tomorrow organizes missions in rural areas across different countries. We focus on individuals who are sometimes financially challenged and lack the means to seek treatment. Some of these rural dwellers are sometimes misinformed treating these correctable deformities as a curse and instead of seeking treatment they discriminate the patients or the parents shy away from seeking treatment. In many cases different kinds of equipment are unavailable in the facilities and the HCFT team is forced to outsource equipment from other hospitals or hire the services of a bio medic to service the available equipment present.
- In some cases the hospital staffs in a given area have poor nursing and medical skills and the HCFT team trains them so as to bring them to a professional level of expertise so that quality and safe medical care is provided for patients.
- Operating rooms in many of the hospitals are below standards and the HCFT team performs cleaning of the rooms and theaters to raise their level to acceptable standards.
- Bad roads and poor means of transport used to access the remote areas.
- Security issues within visiting countries. On certain occasions we've worked under tight security.
- Incurring extra costs to transport the needy and deserving patients.
- When we travel for missions, we normally stay for up to a period of two weeks. With a small number of medical team and hundreds of patients, leaves our teams working endless hours in both the theaters and wards with very little or no rest.
- The team suffers sometimes because of lack of proper food in some areas forcing them to stay hungry or sometimes get sick with whatever they've consumed.