HIATIAN CLEFT PALATE SURGERIES

After Pakistan I began the Haitian children cleft-palate surgical project. The children arrived in Belgium one week early! It absorbed more time and energy than I expected, but it was a great success! Our many thanks go out to Dr. Luk Cesteleyn and his medical team.

Our great thanks also go to some great families who helped in hosting and caring for the Haitian kids.
The results are great! Celaine (11 years old) no longer needs to hide confined to a corner of her parent’s hut in the Haitian mountain area. She got a bilateral (both sides) cleft lip palate.

Alidieu

Alidieu had a unilateral cleft lip palate now has an almost completely normal face. Because of his lameness and mental retardation, he will have a difficult life in a country like Haiti that has no shelters for such children. In his region, there are hundreds of orphans who are naked and ravaged by disease. They wander around and their situation is worse than American pets. In this region (Artibonite) and the surrounding areas there are now more than 465,000 cholera patients! About 10,000 people ̶̶ mostly children ̶̶ have already died. It looks still like the quake happened just yesterday!

The kids were back in Haiti by the end of the year. There, they were greeted with great enthusiasm. Our team there in Haiti and friends was astonished to see the “new” faces.

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