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Kent-Based Group Helping Children Severly Injured in Middle East Wars
A Kent man who started The Palestine Children's Relief Fund is hosting a child from the Middle East who injured by a sniper shot to his right leg. The second child suffered skull injuries from a drone strike.
The CEO and president of The Palestine Children's Relief Fund is in Kent and leading by example.Â
Steve Sosebee is hosting a couple house guests, and has been doing this since the 1990s, who are children in need of urgent medical treatment after being injured in the Middle East, reports our partners at NewsNet5.com.Â
"I started PCRF in 1991 to start facilitating medical care for children who couldn't get treatment in their country, mainly in the Middle East, who were suffering injuries at that time and were not getting adequate health care as the result of the occupation and their economic situation," Sosebee told Channel 5.Â
Sosebee created the non-profit after losing his wife to leukemia, whom he met in the Middle East while working to help children. Â"We've organized over 10,000 surgeries since we started, averaging 70 to 80 volunteer surgery missions a year. By far, more than any other organization," Sosebee said in the NewsNet5.com story. "I'd like to think our impact is bigger than our presence and our resources."
Sosebee's current two house guests are children that needed surgeries and prosthetic fitments.
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