One in every 600 children are born with a cleft condition, 54% are stunted & many others are affected by burns, tumours, animal attack and noma - a devastating facial infection. Communities often reject children with facial disabilities, denying them the right to education or abandoning them to become street children. Treatment is available in few hospitals. But the cost for a young patient to travel from isolated regions to hospital is equivalent to a family's entire annual income.

We will help children and young people to access free life-changing surgery at a cost of £250 a patient. We act as a bridge between the poorest communities and good hospitals, by: - Finding patients who need our help, working with families and local health & social workers - Arranging transport & accommodation - Providing medicine, scans & tests - Providing follow-up care after the operation. We work all year round in Ethiopia, helping anyone with a facial disability.