“Just how lucky my kids were because of the lottery of health they've won in life… kids around the world who haven't won that lottery, who have permanent disability, and nobody knows about them.”

“The reality is we win a lotto in life. We're either born here where we've got access to essential healthcare or we're born somewhere else where we don't.”

“There is a hidden epidemic that the world doesn't know about.”

“No matter where I go in the world, this vision of curable suffering is the same.”

“If they are not repaired, then it affects their future, it affects the rest of their lives.”

“Consequently they get fused fingers and fused feet, fused necks.”

“We’re going to be able to give him a very, very significant improvement with a relatively simple operation.”

“Thirty to forty minutes in an operating theatre and you can make a child transform their lives.”

“Surgery is only half the work… it’s not just surgery that's going to solve the problem.”

“It needs more than just surgery, it needs responsibility, it needs infrastructure.”

“For the first time she’ll be able to walk and when she’s older run.”

“If I grow up, I’d like to be a doctor.”

“Why should anyone in the world suffer and why should we turn our back?”

“If Australians truly cared about our neighbours, we would have governments that truly care about our neighbours.”


“For the first time she’ll be able to walk and when she’s older run.”

“We’re going to be able to give him a very, very significant improvement with a relatively simple operation.”

“There’s always a much bigger gap than you think.”

“It affects their future, it affects the rest of their lives.”

“Acid attacks are quite common in Uganda unfortunately and they have a devastating effect on the person's life.”

“They get disfigured. They lose sight. They lose their hearing ability. It's a terrible thing.”

“Surgery is only half the work… it’s not just surgery that's going to solve the problem.”

“It needs more than just surgery, it needs responsibility, it needs infrastructure.”