 Jean Gabriel was in pain and critically ill. His family had exhausted all medical possibilities in their home country, the Dominican Republic, and could not afford to pay for Jean Gabriel's medical care in the United States.Rather than ignoring his plight and permitting him to suffer, the hospital's administrators, physicians and benefactors united with Jackson Memorial Foundation to establish IKF, not only to help Jean Gabriel, but all foreign children who arrive at Holtz seeking medical treatments that are not available in their home countries and that their desperate families cannot afford.On January 9, 2002, just days before his final treatment, Jean Gabriel unexpectedly died.