The Ruel Foundation is a Christian children's charity organization, formed in year 2000 to provide free medical aid to children living in remote areas of developing nations, or those that suffer from physical deformities like cleft lip and palate and other conditions.

Each month our representatives search for children in desperate need of surgery or care. Hospitals, doctors and surgeons overcome fear, corruption and ignorance to provide children with the help they need at the lowest possible cost.

Our New Zealand-based childrens charity foundation provides funding for the cost of surgery as well as travel and accommodation for both child and parent.
You can sponsor a child for as little as NZ$358 (US$300), which allows a child to receive corrective surgery for a cleft lip or palate from local surgeons in the Philippines and Fiji.

In 2007, we established a 50 bed ‘childrens crisis centre’, which cares

for sufferers of child poverty, as well as children subjected to other life threatening situations, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, orphaned or abandonment.

Right next to the Children’s Crisis Centre is our Malnourishment Centre, established to save the lives of starving children which caters for up to eight children in need of 24 hr care for severe malnutrition.

We are one of the most recognised NZ charities for children. Our commitment to the physical and spiritual welfare of children living in poverty, in a crisis situation or with physical disabilities in developing nations, not only changes lives, but it changes the communities.

As a result of your child sponsorship support and donations to our kids' charity program, children are now recovering their self-esteem, going back to school, getting an education, and dare to dream of being a pilot, fireman, nurse or teacher.
The head office for our kids' charity organization is in Tauranga, New Zealand, which is staffed mainly by volunteers. We are a fully registered Charitable Trust in New Zealand (CC11212), the UK and the USA (501c3).