CLEFT CHARITIES - International

Operation Smile
Throughout the world, Operation Smile volunteers to repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Together, we create smiles, change lives, heal humanity.

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The Smile Train
Unlike many charities that do many different things, The Smile Train is focused on solving a single problem: cleft lip and palate.

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Transforming Faces Worldwide
A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the availability and quality of medial treatment and care of children and adults, with cleft lip and palate and related craniofacial disorders.

Interplast
Interplast envisions a world in which no human being suffers physically or emotionally from a repairable congenital deformity or injury. To reach that vision, Interplast partners with volunteers and overseas medical colleagues to educate and empower local communities so that medical access is available year-round - now and for generations to come.

There is also the Interplast Blog, a weblog for Interplast volunteer surgical trips and international partner surgeons around the world.

The Cleftsurgery Organization
A Belgian/Dutch organization that gives medical help to people, mostly children, with a harelip in development countries. We also look for local medical workers to be trained in performing the operation by themselves. Several doctors and nurses are willing to do this work on a non-profit basis. The doctors even buy their own flightticket.

The European Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation
The European Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation de ECLPF is an organisation providing medical aid on an international scale to children with a cleft lip and/or palate. ECLPF’s activities are focused on developing countries lacking the resources to treat these children.

Cleft Children Internationl
CCI Cleft-Children International (an NGO based in Switzerland), offers disfigured children free surgery. In India alone they have successfully set up their first four 'cleft centres', and have accomplished over 10,000 surgeries.

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