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The Smile Train is dedicated to helping the 1.2 million children in China who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery. They will get a new smile and a new beginning.
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Approximately 35,000 Chinese babies are born with cleft lips and palates each year. Almost 1.9 million of these children need medical care to lead productive lives. Because of their defect, they are often abandoned at birth. The greatest tragedy is that cleft surgery is a relatively simple procedure that takes as little as 45 minutes & can cost as little as $250. This surgery provides new smiles, hope & a new beginning to children who otherwise would lead lives of isolation and shame.
Cleft surgery gives children a second chance at life. It takes as little as 45 minutes, but the impact lasts a lifetime. After years of living in shame and isolation, these children can finally go to school, find a job, and lead happy lives.
Total Funding Received to Date: $19,141
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $130,858
Total Funding Goal: $150,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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.
The Smile Train helps us help our children. This training and funding helps doctors become self-sufficient, improving not only their ability to treat cleft, but all medical services offered in China.
- Victoria Moy, Smile Train managing director, China
Michele Sinesky
Special Project Coordinator
245 Fifth Avenue
Suite 2201
New York, New York 10016
United States
1-212-689-9199
Email:
The Smile Train
41 Madison Avenue 28th Floor
New York,
New York
10010
United States
1-212-689-9199
http://www.smiletrain.org
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This project is located in 
China
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.
This project was last updated on February 3, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 7, 2005
By Adina Wexelberg-Clouser - Donor Relations Associate, February 03, 2010 05:45 PM
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