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Every year, around 15,000 babies in the UK are born with a disfigurement, and many more children acquire one during their childhood. Yet many children and their families don’t get the help they need. Help fund the UK's only counselling service for families affected by disfigurement.

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  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Information/Advice Information/​Advice
  • Mental Health Mental Health
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities

    Situation

    “I agonised about how other people might judge me and stare at my baby who didn’t look like the other ‘perfect babies’ at the mother and baby groups.” If your newborn has a disfigurement, life can sometimes be tough. Parents can feel huge joy, alongside guilt and grief for the ‘perfect’ child. Their baby may need surgery when just days old. Growing up, their child can face bullying and comments. Yet with the NHS under pressure, families affected by disfigurement are waiting too long for help.

    Solution

    Changing Faces provides the UK’s only counselling and wellbeing service for parents of children born with a disfigurement. Without Changing Faces, there is simply no one there to support the thousands of families affected by disfigurement. “Marcus got to meet other children that look different. And I got to meet the parents. What an eye opener, I wasn't the only one, and the fact that Changing Faces had already helped these other parents gave me hope that they could help us, too.”

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    100%
    Categories

  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Information/Advice Information/​Advice
  • Mental Health Mental Health
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities