EVENT#28 - "Operation Smile | Yingjiang, Yunnan - China mission" (Dec 2016)

OPERATION SMILE will be embarking on a mission to Yunnan, China between 15th - 27th March 2017 to perform surgery on 60+ children with facial deformities such as cleft lip and palate.

Project TOM will be fundraising for this project in the lead-up to Christmas, as part of the annual festive charity event - welcoming both individual and corporate donations.

It costs as little as £150 and can take just 45 minutes' surgery to change a child’s life, forever.

More info on our Facebook page here: 
(www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.758470600973728.1073741839.136672246486903&type=1&l=7631a0d6d2)

NB: Please select 'GIFT AID' option for all UK taxpayers
(https://www.justgiving.com/fees/gift-aid/13174) 

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ABOUT OPERATION SMILE:

Since 1982, Operation Smile - with the help of over 5,000 dedicated medical volunteers around the world - has provided over 250,000 free surgical procedures to children and young adults around the world, giving each one a new start in life.

Operation Smile is an international children’s medical charity, working with a team of dedicated medical volunteers in over 60 countries. They provide safe,effective reconstructive surgery for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lip and/ palate.

• Every 3 minutes a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or palate. 
• 1 in 10 children born with a cleft condition will die before they reach their first birthday. 
• More than 200,000 children are born with a severe cleft condition every year- often unable to eat, speak, socialise or smile.
• Clefts are the 3rd most common birth defect worldwide.
• 75% of cleft cases in the developing world go untreated.
• Clefts affect a child’s ability to breathe, eat, drink and speak.
• Children with a cleft will often live a lifetime in isolation.

• Past Mission Sites for China included; Zhengzhou, Kunming, Nanchang,Shenzhen, Wenshan, Ziyang, Handan, Kashgar, Huangshi, Liangshan, Xingyi, Xi’an,Zhangjiajie, Nanjing, Aba, Jiujiang, Ningde, Nanyang, Lincang, Fengkai,Yingjiang, Dazhou, Honghe and Changzhi.

For more info: www.operationsmile.org.uk