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.
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News from our project countries, about cleft lip and palate, our organisation, and success stories.
When developing our project to treat children with cleft lip and palate...
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.
For the first time, all of our four cleft care partners in Bolivia sat down together to discuss our help for children with cleft lip and palate in the country.
The siblings Ayan and Salman were born in Ethiopia with cleft lip and palate. Our international team of medical specialists brought them the treatment they needed.
Being born with a cleft lip and palate means having to overcome many problems. Fortunately, there is help. Read about Dua from Pakistan.
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With some 24 locations, India is our largest cleft lip and palate project country. Now, we are testing eight potential additional centers.
When Rishav is born with a severe cleft lip and palate, his parents are distraught. But there is a happy ending for the family.
Our Peruvian team regularly travels throughout Peru to treat cleft patients. In August, they went to the Andean town of Huanuco.
Our team in Bangladesh is growing: Dr. Masfiquer has completed his advanced cleft surgeon training. Welcome aboard!
Punam was born in Umarkot, Pakistan, with a cleft lip and palate. The family is poor and cannot afford treatment. But there is help for Punam!
In June 2023 we visited our nascent project to treat cleft patients in Ethiopia. This is our second project visit since November 2022.
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The English version of the DCKH Annual Report 2022 is now available for download. Read what we and our many partners and friends were up to in our 20th anniversary year 2022.
The Jiwaqui organization of our partner Dr. Adolfo Mamani is our largest partner in the treatment of cleft lip and palate in Bolivia.
