Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children

by Smile Train
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children
Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Filipino Children

Project Report | Aug 6, 2009
Phillipines Update

By Adina Wexelberg-Clouser | Donor Relations Associate

Stats: • 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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Smile Train

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Adina Wexelberg-Clouser
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Adina Wexelberg-Clouser
Donor Relations Associate
New York , NY United States

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