As the end of the financial year approaches, many of us are considering how we can make a meaningful impact through our giving. This year, we invite you to support a tangible outcome through the RACS Foundation for Surgery’s Pledge-a-Procedure campaign.

Across our region and beyond, millions of people still lack access to safe, timely surgical care. For many, a single procedure can mean the difference between dependence and independence—or even life and death. Through the RACS Global Health program, surgeons and healthcare teams are delivering essential care, building local capability, and strengthening health systems in communities that need it most.

This work is making a real difference—but it depends on ongoing support.

By making a tax-deductible donation before 30 June 2026, you can directly contribute to surgeries, training, equipment and outreach programs that change lives.

If you’re in a position to give this year, we encourage you to consider supporting this work. Every contribution helps extend the reach of surgical care to those who would otherwise go without.

Click Donate Now and select Pledge-a-Procedure under the campaign options. 

Here’s how your donation will help: 

• $50 can provide simple essential surgical supplies such as scalpels.
• $100 can pay for training materials for an Indo-Pacific in-country surgeon to attend a course.
• $250 can support a day of travel requirements for a surgeon during a Global Health visiting medical team mission.
• $500 can pay for PPE for one surgery.
• $3000 provides funding for a nurse in the Pacific to undertake a post-graduate diploma in Peri-Operative Care. 
• $10,000 will support two regional surgical registrars to return to Fiji to sit their final exams.
• $20,000 will provide funds to ensure that our clinical training programs can provide current versions of training manuals and replacement of training materials required for training simulation.
• $25,000 will enables two Indo-Pacific surgeons to undertake training such as CCrISP or EMST with RACS in Australia. This enables them to return home and boost the number of local faculty able to train locally.
• $30,000 will support four medical educators to travel to the region to train Pacific clinicians to increase clinical confidence, knowledge and skills.$100,000 will enable the purchase of an equipment kit for Global Health visiting medical teams. 

Donations in Impact

In September 2025, RACS Global Health deployed a Specialist ENT surgical team to Tuvalu to deliver critical surgical care. An ear health team established an Ear Health Clinic funded by the Australian government at the Princess Margaret Hospital. During the surgical trip the team conducted two tympanomastoidectomies, four tympanoplasties, one grommet insertion, three examinations of ears under general anaesthetic, and one examination of nasal cavity. 

Team leader, Dr Jae Park stated: “It was a delightful trip. We enjoy the trips because you really get to experience the joy of giving. We get to make bigger differences than in Australia as well.

A few highlights: certainly, the food was amazing. The dinner hosted by PNA was probably the best food that I have had. The challenging surgery that we almost had to abort was right up there along with the smile the patient had for us after the surgery. Amazing trip overall!” 

The Foundation for Surgery provides funding to deploy Volunteer Medical Teams (VMTs) to Indo-Pacific nations to provide essential medical and surgical care, to purchase and maintain equipment and cover necessary travelling and operational costs.

Funding from the Foundation for Surgery ensures RACS VMTs can continue to provide this essential surgical and medical care across the Indo-Pacific through providing financial support to operational staff and oncosts, travel requirements, meeting regulation requirements and surgical equipment.