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As every year, we present our activities of the past year in a detailed annual report.
News
News from our project countries, about cleft lip and palate, our organisation, and success stories.
Project start in Popayán: David's cleft surgery marks the commencement of work at our second project location in Colombia.
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Cleft lips and palates are and have been a reality in all eras and on all continents. This antique bust of a man with cleft lip is a reminder of this.
Mussa’ab is standing with his mother in the waiting area of the...
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Our CEO Alexander Gross wrote this text about our aid strategy for our sponsor Sternstunden.
Bangladesh is our second largest project country by number of cleft lip and palate surgeries. Our CEO Andrea Weiberg travelled to the country.
On April 30, 2024, our first project for children with cleft lip and palate was officially opened in Nepal.
A small hamlet in India, Kerala state, 2009: The girl Soorya is born with a cleft lip and palate.
Urmila was born in Bangladesh in 2023 with a cleft lip. Her parents cannot afford the treatment she needs. We were able to help.
Successful conclusion: nine busy days have come to an end. What is the outcome of our current mission in Somalia?
For many years, Oliver Blume and Gunther Au-Balbach have been helping children with cleft deformities in East Africa. They set off again in 2024.
When developing our project to treat children with cleft lip and palate...
“Harelip”, “camel’s mouth”, “wolf’s maw”. These terms are not found in an...
Thank you message from Danitza, mother of a child with cleft lip and palate from Bolivia.
Suresh weighed just two kilos at birth. On top of that, he has to cope with a cleft lip and palate. We were able to help him.
After a temporary sharp drop, we were able to help more children with cleft lip and palate in Afghanistan again in 2023.
One of our newest projects for children with cleft lip and palate is located in Jijiga, Ethiopia. Abdimalik is one of our first patients.
We have been helping children with cleft lip and palate in Peru since 2006. Over the years, we have been able to make almost 5,000 operations possible.
There have always been people with cleft lip and palate! This statue is from the Roman Empire, from what is today Trier, then a Roman metropolis.
Some 17,000 children are born in Pakistan every day. Some 31 of them have a cleft lip and palate. Mohsin from Sindh is one of them.
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The annual month-long Islamic fasting period, Ramadan, begins these days. We wish you a very peaceful time.
We congratulate our partner organization Jiwaqui from Bolivia on the occasion of their tenth anniversary! Thank you for your work for cleft children in Bolivia!
Khadiza was born in Bangladesh with cleft lip and palate - one of some 15 children like her every day. Learn how she got the help she needed.
At the end of 2023, the Ethiopian surgeon Dr. Samater completed specialist training in Pakistan - a major milestone for our work in the Horn of Africa.
