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Help the cleft surgery expenses of a poor child

Campaign by Mission Smile

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Rishi is from a remote village in Assam. **He was born with a cleft lip. People around him did not understand this defect.** They began to treat his family poorly. They were mocked and looked at as outcasts. They could not deal with the ill treatment any longer and **locked themselves in their home most of the time.** Soon, life became unbearable for the family. It was then, that Rishi's mother Anupama heard about Mission Smile and decided to take him to there. **Mission Smile helped Anupama understand more about the defect and agreed to sponsor his surgery as she could not afford it.** They helped him with a correction surgery for his cleft lip. After the cleft lip correction surgery, Anupama was overjoyed. She felt as though her son was born again. **Rishi now smiles with all his heart and is invited home by all his neighbors and treated like one of their own.** The pain and stigma that came with his cleft lip no longer torments the family and they now had a chance to rejoin the community with no hesitation. You can make a difference to poor families by donating to help children with cleft lip surgery. Your donation will give them a chance to live with peace with dignity. You can give with confidence because every program on our platform is [GIVEASSURED](https://www.giveindia.org/giveassured).


About The Program

Operation Smile India specializes in delivering safe and quality cleft correction surgeries in the remotest parts of the country. Surgeries are conducted as a part of this program with the most basic of requirements - a hospital room, an operating table and an operating room light. Operation Smile brings all medical equipment, drugs and medical consumables that are needed for surgery. The program has also involved the best of surgeons, anesthetists, pediatricians, dentists and speech therapists among others - all on a voluntary association.The project is divided into three parts - Screening - where potential candidates are selected 2. Surgery week 3. All patients come back to the hospital a week after the surgery for a one-week post-operative evaluation. When you donate to this program, you can help poor children get access to cleft surgery.


About The NGO

Bringing smiles is the mission of Mission Smile. The organization led by the team of dynamic trustees facilitates free life-changing surgeries for patients suffering from cleft deformities. In a country like India, there are 1 million cleft deformity patients that have never received any form of treatment. With over 45,000 medical examination and over 35000 surgeries in 16 years, Mission Smile takes a step towards helping the situation. Mission Smile has 10 outreach centers and 1 comprehensive cleft care center. A team of 40 full-time staff and five consultants work tirelessly to serve the patients. The backbone of Mission Smile is great professionals like Dr. Rashmi Taneja Delhi and Col. Shivaji Samaddar (Retd.). Due to their great efforts Govt. of Assam honored the Guwahati Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre with the “Social Impact Award” for their Innovative Social Services.


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Mission Smile

Mission Smile

Beneficiary Charity

Rohit Nair

Rohit Nair

Organiser

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