10/22/2019 Today our amazing team completed 8 surgeries. 1 rhinoplasty, 6 palates, and 1 lip + palate. Today we are featuring 8-month-old Thaw Zin Tun. Thaw is from Mandalay. Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It’s located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 716 km (445 mi) north of Yangon. The city has a population...
Phu’s Story – Day 7
10/21/2019 Today our amazing team completed 8 surgeries. 3 lips, 4 palates, and 1 lip + palate. Today we are featuring 4-year-old Phu Thit Wai. Another walk-in success story. Phu is from Zalon, in the Pin Pone Township, Myanmar. Zalon is the central part of Myanmar. Phu Thit traveled with her grandmother Shwe Thet & great-grandmother Phoo Yati via bus...
Meet with Yati Hlun – Day 6
10/19/2019 Today our amazing team completed 9 surgeries. 7 lips, and 2 additional oral procedures. Today we are featuring 5-month-old Yati Hlun Htun. A walk-in success story. Yati Hlun is from Pyar Pone, Sanchaung Township, Myanmar. Pyar Pone is in the north-central part of Yangon. Yati Hlun traveled with her mother Saung Yadi via car for the short one hour...
Khay Hlynn’s Story – Day 5
10/18/2019 Today we are featuring 4 year old Khay Hlynn Sai from Nalong Village, Thiabaw, Myanmar. Nalong Village is on the northwestern boarder of Myanmar and China. Khay Hlynn traveled over 20 hours via bus with his mother Lait Sai. When asked about her travels to Yangon and Victoria Hospital she said it was very hard and tiresome, but worth...
Aye Nyein’ story – Day 4
10/17/2019 Today we are featuring 2 year old Aye Nyein Thu from Mawlamyine. Mawlamyine is the fourth largest city of Mayanmar, 300 km south east of Yangon. Aye Nyein traveled via bus for over 6 hours with her mother Daw Khin Thein and father Aye Nyein. We love her beautiful new smile. In addition, we screened another 10 new patients...
Opening clinic – Day 1 + 2
10/15/2019 Amazing arrival and visit on Sunday night. Our first and second days Triange, clinic, screening and surgeries have been a huge success! We completed 10 surgeries, 9 lips and 1 lip+palate.
SUPPORT – Manila, Philippines
Bonifacio, 35 is a construction worker. Long-time before our team came to Manila he spoke with his employer, construction engineer Teodoro Carlos Tanega that he would like to have surgery of his cleft lip. After our press conference in Manila, Teodoro saw our advertising in the Manila Times that we are coming to Manila doing free surgery of cleft lip...
Sightseeing At Taal Volcano – Manila, Philippines
A well deserved day off for the Alliance for Smiles team today after arriving a week ago in Manila. We started with Opening Clinic and went straight into five days of surgeries. A big thank you to Raffy Garcia, Rotary International Director and member of the Rotary Club of Pasig who organized our outing. The team had a wonderful time...
Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate – Manila, Philippines
Cleft lip and cleft palate, also known as orofacial cleft, is a group of conditions that includes a cleft lip (CL), cleft palate (CP), and both together (CLP). A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. The causes of...
Happy Birthday Steven – Manila, Philippines
Steven is a 4 years old boy from Sariaya Quezon Province. Steven’s mother has a friend from another hospital who told her that that in Manila Rizal Medical Center Alliance for Smiles will provide the surgeries of cleft and palate. They referred to CPT Reggie from Makati Gems Rotary who helped him to arrange their trip. They traveled by bus...