In rural and poor urban areas within Ethiopia there are many people with serious facial deformities and illnesses such as Noma, Trismus, tumours, gun shots, burns and damage to the face and neck. These conditions often impact on the person's ability to eat, drink, breath or speak. They reduce life expectancy. There is huge social stigma and very little resource and expertise available to treat these people. We treat the patients, improve their lives and strengthen local healthcare systems.

Each time we successfully operate on a patient they are able to reintegrate back into society and it reduces the stigma attached to disability. Our work exponentially improves the life chances of our patients and their families. We provide training to local healthcare workers and work in partnership with Ethiopian surgeons to give them new surgical techniques. By providing a full team of experts, we are able to treat around 50 patients with no hope of treatment otherwise.