Give A New Smile to 20 Children in Uraba, Colombia

Give A New Smile to 20 Children in Uraba, Colombia

Project summary
A child born with cleft palate misses out on more than a brilliant smile. They miss out on a life free of financial, emotional, and physical burdens related to this disability. Our goal for "Give A New Smile to 20 Children in Uraba" is to sponsor the entire treatment process for the 20 children ages 1 to 5 in Uraba suffering from cleft palate. Your donation helps to provide free reconstructive surgeries, speech therapy, and emotional counseling to support these children and their families.

During the development of the project, practices were promoted that guaranteed comprehensive health care for the children participating in the project, through psychosocial care, speech therapies, nutrition, dental procedures that contributed to improving their quality of life.

Results

Thanks to the donors who entrusted us with their resources through GlobalGiving and the participation of public and private institutions in Colombia, we can present the following results:

The 3 surgical days were carried out throughout the project where 123 people were assessed and 73 surgical procedures were performed on 52 people (palatal, lip, nose surgeries) and 36 children were treated for dentistry and orthodontics. Today 26 children have braces for the preparation of future surgery.

304 therapies were performed, to offer greater mobility to the phonoarticulatory organs (lips, tongue and palate) and to achieve the proper diction of the altered phonemes, eliminating the glottis stroke and the compensatory joint.

75 follow-up visits of home rehabilitation plans and 3 speech therapy workshops with the participation of patients and their families. The topics developed were food and oral hygiene.

There were 6 liaison consultations for otolaryngologist and pediatric dentist care for 20 children, 65 consultants for the health care route and 6 workshops for emotions and life projects.

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