This video documents some of her work with Operation Smile. A non-profit group that travels around performing surgeries to repair cleft-pallets. She met her and John McCain's adopted daughter Bridget while doing this work in India. She founded the American Voluntary Medical Team and it was work she was doing with them in Bangladesh at Mother Theresa's orphanage where she met Bridget. The AVMT w More.. as leaving and Mother Theresa handed her two babies and said please help them. Getting off the plane John McCain said "Who's this?", and Cindy McCain said it was their new daughter. They arranged for the other child to be adopted. (from Wikipedia) In 1988, inspired by a vacation visit four years earlier to substandard medical facilities on Truk Lagoon,[14][10] Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT).[2] It was a non-profit organization that organized trips for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to provide MASH-like emergency medical care to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas such as Micronesia, Vietnam (before relations were normalized between them and the U.S.[14]), Kuwait (arriving five days after the conclusion of the Gulf War[14]), Iraq, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh and El Salvador.[9][28][29][30][31] She led 55 of these missions over the next seven years,[13] with each being of at least two weeks' duration.[31] AVMT also supplied treatment to poor sick children around the world.[32] In 1993, Cindy McCain and the AVMT were honored with an award from Food for the Hungry.[9] Cindy McCain has also done a lot of work with HALO, clearing mines in Vietnam and SE Asia. Less..