Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Philippines free cleft palate surgery
Summary
Smile Train is dedicated to helping the hundreds of thousands of children in the Philippines who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates with free surgery. They will have new smiles and new hopes
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Each year about 4,500 Pilipino babies are born with cleft lips and palates. Approximately 180,000 of these children need medical care to lead productive lives. Because of their birth defect, they are often abandoned at birth. The greatest technology is that cleft surgery is a simple procedure that takes as little as 45 minutes and can cost as little as $250. This surgery gives hope and a new beginning to children who otherwise would lead lives of isolation and shame.
Activities
Each child who undergoes cleft surgery is given a second chance at life. The surgery takes 45 minutes, but the impact lasts a lifetime. After years of living in shame and isolation, these children can finally go to school and lead happy lives.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,995
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $148,005
Total Funding Goal: $150,000
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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Children’s lives are changed forever. Dignity is restored to the family and the medical community benefits. Newly trained Smile Train doctors share their surgical skills with new doctors ensuring that cleft care will be available for years to come.
Project Message
Smile Train empowers medical teams throughout the Philippines so more surgeries can be done and more children’s lives can be touched. The transformation this surgery makes is clear by the new smiles.
- Rogelio la O' Cooey, Country Director, Philippines
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Michele Sinesky
Special Project Coordinator
41 Madison Avenue, 28th Floor
New York, NY 10010
United States
+12126899199
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Project Sponsor
Organization
The Smile Train
41 Madison Avenue 28th Floor
New York,
New York
10010
United States
1-212-689-9199
http://www.smiletrain.org
The Smile Train's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in Brazil |
 Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in India |
 Free Cleft Surgery for 600 Poor Chinese Children |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Philippines
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Philippines, read the Human Development Report on Philippines or the Wikipedia entry for Philippines.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 6, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
Phillipines Update
By Adina Wexelberg-Clouser - Donor Relations Associate, August 06, 2009 12:15 PM
• 84.5 Million people
• 4,364 cleft births/year*
• Among developing countries, ranks 8th in the number of cleft births per year.
• 28 Million people living below the poverty line
• ½ of the population lives on less than $2/day (47.5%)
*(This year we provided 3,400 surgeries in the Philippines. Next year – for the first time ever – we will provide cleft surgery for the number of children born each year with clefts and begin to “chip away” at the backlog, estimated at over 125,000)
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