Founder and President Dr. Michael J. Lacqua initially traveled to Central America to provide plastic surgical care to patients of the Cayo District of Belize. Seeing the vital need for other services, Healing Hands Abroad expanded to provide a variety of surgical specialties and anesthesia. Volunteer doctors, nurses and support staff from the New York/New Jersey make up the core members of the Healing Hands Abroad family.  More recently, doctors and health care providers from throughout the United States have joined us in our mission. Though primarily serving the indigent communities of Belize, our reach has expanded to serving communities in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.