India: Smile Train Gives Hope for 35,000 Children with Cleft Palates
http://www.smiletrainindia.org
Every year 35,000 children in India are born with clefts. Without corrective surgery, these children are condemned to a lifetime of isolation and suffering. Many are even abandoned or killed at birth.
The tragedy is that a cleft can… Continue reading
Conjoined Indian Children Given Successful Operation in Australia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2162498/Conjoined-twins-abandoned-poverty-stricken-parents-successfully-separated.html
In their own bodies at last: Conjoined baby twins abandoned by poverty-stricken parents are successfully separated in gruelling 12-hour operation
- Indian sisters Aradhana and Stuti had a fused liver and shared a heart membrane
By Claire Bates
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12 Sept 2012, Vellore, India: Clowning at Mother Theresa’s Home for Children
This afternoon we got dressed again and went to Missionaries of Charity Home for Children. We never know what is going to happen, so interesting.
There were around 30 children there with a range of disabilities both physical… Continue reading