Donate today to bring these children to medical experts in Australia. You can help provide life-saving surgery, essential care, and rehabilitation at our outer Melbourne retreat. And you'll be updated with the progress of the children whose lives you transform.
By joining the Child Rescue Team with a monthly gift, your help reaches more children as soon as they need it. Your ongoing commitment means you're always there for the most vulnerable children at critical times.

Elina battles a large tumour obstructing her vision that not only affects her sight and her confidence, but also poses a risk of becoming cancerous.
Without access to specialised medical care in her home country, the tumour jeopardises not only her sight but her ability to live independently. Urgent intervention is crucial to give Elina a chance at a normal, happy childhood and the reassurance that her tumour will not pose a risk to her life.

Sidath, recently introduced to us, is from Bhutan.
His severe tumour requires urgent attention to relive the nerve damage and pain he suffers every day.
Ensuring Sidath receives prompt surgery and support is crucial to enhancing his prospects for a normal life. Every moment counts to aid his urgent case.
Envision a world where your generosity becomes the bridge between life and death, despair and hope for many more children.
A commitment to a monthly donation today means you will become part of our cherished Child Rescue Team. The Team will continue to find and help many of the world's most vulnerable children. By joining the Child Rescue Team today, you can be the miracle they desperately need.
Please consider making your gift today a monthly contribution.




With your donation, these critical actions transform not just one life, but uplift entire families and communities, sparking waves of positive change and endless possibilities.

Your support enables three important but simple steps, helping to re-write a child's future:
1. Securing a medical visa
2. Ensuring a safe return journey to and from Australia
3. Providing expert surgical care and recovery support.
That is what happened for Nima and Dawa, the Bhutanese conjoined twins who required separation surgery to ensure a healthy future.
Thanks to kind and generous donors like you, Children First Foundation brought them to Australia to give them the help they so desperately needed.
With a mission firmly rooted in providing life-altering medical interventions and sustained support, we span our efforts globally, reaching children in developing countries to offer surgeries and follow-up care, either in their homeland or here, in Australia. We have witnessed profound transformations, alleviating suffering and enabling children to walk, run, and dream freely once more.
Children First Foundation was established by like-minded people (largely volunteers and Rotarians) who shared a vision for a world where all children have access to medical and surgical care, regardless of where they were born.
The Foundation has facilitated life-changing and life-saving surgery for disadvantaged children from developing countries since 1999.