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The project 'Rebuilding Faces, Changing Lives' will provide life-changing surgery and comprehensive rehabilitation for 50 individuals with severe facial disfigurements in Ethiopia. The project will also collaborate with local surgeons and medical professionals at Yekatit-12 government hospital.
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Beneficiaries
Situation
Individuals with facial disfigurements suffer from malnutrition, have difficulty eating and speaking and face social isolation. They are bullied and most do not go to school or make friends. In addition, our beneficiaries are located in extremely isolated areas of Ethiopia with little or no access to healthcare, surgery or support. Without Project Harar their lives would be bleak and they would live in isolation with compromised physical and mental wellbeing. Many would die prematurely.
Solution
We identify and mobilise patients from some of the most remote regions providing them with surgery and comprehensive pre- and post- operative care including nutritional support, oral health/hygiene education and social worker support. We help build the capacity of local surgeons so that complex facial surgery can continue without our intervention and reach many more individuals in the long-term.