We are honored to have Reon join the Operation Walk Board. She will be an asset to our new leadership.

About her background:

Reon Roski joined Majestic Realty Co. in March 2007 as Senior Counsel. She was named Managing Director in September 2007. A member of Majestic’s Board of Directors since 1997, she is the granddaughter of the company’s late founder, Edward P. Roski Sr., and daughter of its current Chairman and CEO, Edward P. Roski Jr. and the late Gayle Garner Roski, a long time Operation Walk supporter.

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We are looking for volunteers in the following areas to help grow Operation Walk’s platform and reach in 2022.

• Marketing Committee: Help to expand our database by getting our information out to people of industry, donors, and foundations who can help us.
• Angels Committee: Help to organize the Annual Luncheon, help write thank you notes on a monthly basis for donations received (personal, handwritten notes),help on missions with communication between Angels and patients, recruit other Angels.
• Dinner Committee: Help organize the Annual Fundraiser. Sell tables, procure auction & raffle items, recruit entertainment, select venue and date, make calls to promote the event and get people to come.

To sign up or inquire about a committee, please contact us.

We are now registered as a charity with Amazon Smile! This means that every time you shop on Amazon, a percentage of your purchase automatically goes to Operation Walk Los Angeles. Using Amazon Smile is as easy as shopping normally on Amazon. Just follow these simple instructions:
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At the end of 2021, our friends at Hospital Obras del Santo Hermano Pedro in Guatemala put out a call for donations to renovate their Operating Room facilities. Their OR welcomes dozens of medical brigades year-round from all over the world, including many Operation Walk teams. The renovation of their OR facilities would ensure that free-of-cost and life-changing surgeries can continue at their hospital for many more years to come.

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Every year, we are blessed to welcome new Angels and to count on the continued support of our Founding and long-time Angels. The Operation Walk Angels are a group of women who, through philanthropy, help provide the gift of mobility to individuals in desperate need of life-transforming surgeries, primarily in developing countries.

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Those are my words as 2021 turns in to 2022. I am grateful for all that happened in 2021, even though the year started out with the heartbreak of losing Dr. Dorr, it also reunited me with many friends, patients, former Fellows, colleagues and family of his. Marilyn Dorr and I were overwhelmed with the support, cards, kind words and  memories from so many of you. That gave us the strength to keep moving ahead with Operation Walk, when at times we just felt like throwing the blankets over our heads and crying.

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We would like to thank two long-time volunteers, Sharron Whiteley and Julie Margaret Anderson, for inspiring our OpWalk Wish Bracelet fundraiser. These two ladies made hundreds of bracelets and were able to raise enough money to give the gift of mobility to one of our patients in Guatemala this summer.

Ernestina received a knee replacement because of the hard work of our volunteers and the generosity of our donors. Sharron was able to meet Ernestina after her surgery and let her know the story of our Wish Bracelets and how they made her surgery possible.
Thank you Sharron and Julie, and thank you to each and every one of you who donated during this special campaign.

– CAMI WARD

“After years of suffering from my knee, today I want to infinitely give thanks for the social work of Hospital Hermano Pedro in Antigua, Guatemala. Especially to the staff who, with their kindness and good service, made this moment more pleasant, and to those prodigious hands of Operation Walk. Read more

On every OpWalk trip, we have a final team dinner where first-time volunteers say a few words about their experience on our trip. It is always a heart-warming moment, we love welcoming new team members! On this and future newsletters, we will hear from a few first-time volunteers who joined us for Guatemala in August of 2021.

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Remember Rogelio? He is the Crooked Man from Dr. Dorr’s book “The Crooked Man, his Doctor and his Angel.” Rogelio took an 11 hour bus ride from his home in the mountains of Guatemala to come and visit the team that changed his life for the better. We were able to present him with the book that was written by Dr. Dorr and drawn by artist Gayle Garner Roski, and then had to tell him the sad news of their passing last year.

After a few tears were shed, Rogelio met Basilio, another man with 2 crooked knees much like his old ones. He spent some time talking to Basilio, telling him of his experience and how frightened he was. He told the man “Just do what they tell you, and you will be fine.”

Everything comes full circle when a healed patient encourages a potential patient. It is a gift to us to be able to see the good our work has done. Thanks to Rogelio for making the long trip to show us his progress and gratitude!