Thank you very much for showing an interest in my Blog! Trying to help children in developing countries who have a cleft lip is something I feel very strongly about! Not many people seem to know about the suffering experienced by people who have a cleft lip – people like Arifase pictured below. When you’ve read my Blog, I hope that you will know a bit more about the problems faced by the many thousands of children like Arifase - & feel that you will want to help.
Here is Arifase’s story. Her cleft lip stopped her from living like a normal child and made her life a misery. When Arifase should have been making friends & having fun, she was hiding her face at home. She was ridiculed & ignored by other children for looking different. Arifase was missing out on her education & a chance of a better life because she was too afraid to go to school. Her childhood was being taken away – she just wanted to look like the other children in her village. A simple 45-minute operation was all it took to give Arifase a beautiful smile & stop her suffering. Now at school, Arifase has lots of new friends & is busy making up for lost time.
Arifase’s new life was made possible by the Charity ‘Operation Smile.’ It takes just £150 to take away a cleft lip. Operation Smile have 5,000 medical volunteers in 42 of the world’s poorest countries, ready to perform reconstructive surgery on children like Arifase, but they need more funds to pay for the operations.
Thank you so much again reading my Blog. Please do now post me a response with your thoughts. In particular, it would be great if you could write just a few words in answer to the following questions - & help in any way you feel you can. Further details of all the ideas listed below can be found at: http://www.operationsmile.org.uk Please help give more children a smile that will last forever!
* Had you heard about the problems caused for people who have a cleft lip before?
* Do you now feel more informed about the issues faced by people with a cleft lip.
* Would you now be prepared to do any of the following things to help improve the lives of people who have a cleft lip …
1. Make a donation to ‘Operation Smile’?
2. Start or join a FUNDraising campaign?
3. Sign up to receive regular information about the work of Operation Smile by joining their ‘Student Club’
4. Support Operation Smile every time you use eBay
5. Tell your family & friends about ‘Operation Smile’ & try to persuade them to help out in any of the ways above?
Mr Charlwood
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