The author, as an otolaryngologist and the Director of Global ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) Outreach, traveled to Ethiopia to help 11 children who could not breathe because of respiratory papillomas blocking their airways and who had been hospitalized for years. The disease, called juvenile respiratory papillomatosis, is what affected these 11 children. In this region of the world, a lack of resources and skilled physicians resulted in these 11 children, ages three to 11, being hospitalized, some of them for years. All of them had tracheotomies, because there was no means to remove the blockages, let alone provide the needed care to keep the tubes clean from the build up of secretions. The hospital lacked the needed portable suction machines, sterile water, cleaning kits, as well as home health services and respiratory therapists, that are required to allow patients to go home with tracheotomies. Global ENT Outreach is only one of a few organizations in the USA that is devoted to the treatment of ear disease and dedicated to teaching surgical skills to physicians in developing countries.