MENDING KIDS
Marchelle L. Sellers
MilliOnAir has been a follower of Mending Kids for the last couple of years and we were so excited to get to meet with Entrepreneur Business Woman Marchelle in LA and find out more about her and the charity.
Mending Kids is a global nonprofit organization ($6m) dedicated to providing surgery for children with serious yet correctable medical conditions in developing countries. Through four core programs, Mending Kids works in 60 countries, including the United States.
Mending Kids is honored to be an active advocate for sustainable surgical care and each Mending Kids program helps to train local surgeons and ICU staff and provide resources to empower their local talent - all in an effort to achieve full independence.
Mending Kids is a proud member of the G4 Alliance, a collective voice in global surgical care and a division of the World Health Organization.
MOA: Tell us a bit about yourself Marchelle…
Marchelle L. Sellers, is the founder and past Executive Director of the Pasadena Ronald McDonald House that has served over 14,000 families since it opened in 2005, and was awarded Most Inspirational Executive Director of the Year in 2007 by both the State Assembly and Senator’s offices. She is a resident of South Pasadena, is the past President of the South Pasadena Rotary Club and in 2015 was awarded Rotarian of the Year. She is a past commissioner for the City of Pasadena’s Accessibility & Disability Commission and is a member of Vistage, a CEO mentorship group. Three years ago, THE Magazine recognized Marchelle as one of the top 50 women in the San Gabriel Valley and two years ago, Marchelle was awarded the Top Nonprofit Executive by Los Angeles Business Journal. Marchelle attended USC and finished her MBA at Ashford University with a concentration in global management. She joined Mending Kids 7 years ago and under her leadership, the organization now serves 6X as many children, is in 63 countries, hosts Hometown Missions in the United States, partners with 15 renowned medical institutions to deploy surgical teams on 25+ annual mission trips and works with governments in several countries and partners with 40 NGO’s and local hospitals for training programs. She is the mother of two sons, Graham (11) and Reese. Reese who was born with special needs and passed away at 13 is the inspiration behind everything she does. The fully-accessible park in Pasadena located next to the Rose Bowl is aptly named "Reese's Retreat" in his memory.