Thank you All for your Support!
Thanks to your generosity, the Annual Campaign was a great success. We are happy to report that children around the world will continue to receive life-changing surgeries from Rotaplast Medical Teams. Together, we make the difference! As we write, a record-breaking mission is treating our 15,000th child with a cleft in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Read about it here.
the Mission that Sets Rotaplast Apart
Rotaplast provides multidisciplinary care for cleft lip and palate, as well as other conditions requiring reconstructive surgery.
This January, Dr. David Morwood, volunteer surgeon, took time from surgery on our mission to Lima, Peru (made possible with your support!) to write on our blog about the unseen magic of a palate repair.
"It is a gift that cannot be pictured on a poster or in an ad and shown at fundraisers, it doesn’t easily lend itself to a "before and after photo" during a report to supporters, it is not described by a catchy phrase like "saving smiles," and at times these palate operations take a backseat to the cleft lip repairs. However, it is a gift that can make it possible for a child to speak clearly to his parents about his wants, answer a question in school with confidence, or one day give a speech that can move the audience, or actually one day in the future reveal what is truly in her heart - it is the gift of speech.
Thank you for being so gracious.
Dr. David Morwood, M.D."
Read more from Dr. Morwood about the neck-and-back-bending surgeries that restore speech and livelihoods here.
- $1,500 pays for airfare of one medical volunteer.
- $500 pays for the disposable supplies for the entire mission.
- $200 covers the cost of antibiotics for the mission.
Saving Smiles and Changing Lives
Rotaplast International is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, humanitarian organization founded in 1992 as a world community service project of the Rotary Club of San Francisco by Dr. Angelo Capozzi and Peter Lagarias. Rotaplast is committed to changing lives through reconstructive surgery and has performed over 14,000 surgeries in countries around the world.
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