The Nicole Rodriguez Fund

One of the most interesting and exciting findings of the entire trip was finding little Nicole Rodriguez. On one of our trips to a remote bush village at the end of an exhausting day, we found this little four year-old. At birth this child’s sex was indistinct, having neither male nor female characteristics. Nicole’s father left the family of six children and their mother because “this is a disgrace to me”, he said. So the mother and her six children moved in with an uncle. The uncle had just put them all out of his house the same week we were holding clinic in their village. Fortunately, this family qualified to move into the house we built while in Honduras that week!

Dr. Weakland and I are committed to bringing Nicole to the United States for a proper evaluation and corrective surgery. In that way, this child can grow up to have a proper sexual identity.

You may contribute to this worthy, tax deductible cause online or make your checks payable to Saint Mark (For: The Nicole Rodriguez Fund)

Thanks in advance, Richard Kauffman, M.D.