What We Do.
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Operation Smile Australia is part of a global alliance of Operation Smile Foundations and Resource Chapters dedicated to providing free treatment to children and young adults suffering from childhood facial deformities in developing countries. Operation Smile Australia is a registered not-for-profit organization registered under the Charities Act.
Operation Smile Australia sends volunteer credentialed Australian medical professionals to Operation Smile's International Medical Missions around the world to treat children during a two-week period. On a typical International Medical Mission, 300-500 children receive full medical evaluations and 100-150 children are surgically treated.
Some of the children who come to us for help have much more complicated disfigurements than can be treated during our two-week medical missions. Through the generosity of sponsors, we can arrange to have a child and a guardian brought to Australia where the child receives surgery. A caring host family provides a home for them during the child’s treatment and recovery, typically lasting a month. Not only are these children’s faces transformed, but their lives are as well.
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 Medical Mission
Peru: Lima
May 20 to May 30, 2009
An Operation Smile team of volunteers will provide life-changing cleft lip and cleft palate surgery for the children of Lima, Peru... >>
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