Perhaps my most moving picture is of the boy looking at his new lip in the mirror. He was 15 years old and lay still under local anaesthetic whilst I repaired his lip which had never been repaired. We gave him a mirror at the end and he just stared at himself transfixed. This shot summarises many emotions for me - a picture paints a thousand words’
Many of us from the Committee know Mr Hall as he operated on our children, and many other children in the East Anglian Region. Mr Hall has been involved in the cleft care for many years and together with the members of the Addenbrooke’s Cleft Team has been very supportive of the branch work, what we are very grateful for. We feel very passionate to continue support this amazing and worthy project that gives an opportunity for a child to have a normal childhood and also a new life to a whole family, community and the country.
It’s inspiring to know that TOGETHER we can help to change a child’s life forever!
TEAM WORK: The doctors who performed 75 cleft lip
operations In three days. Great effort!! (Ethiopia 2008)
See a beautiful article about Mr Hall’s trip in the ‘Cambridge News’ on Monday, 18th of May 2009
Mrs Sarah Hall with her husband Mr Hall.
See a beautiful article in the ‘Cambridge News’
about her work .
DECEMBER 2009, GUWAHATI, INDIA
We screened over 600 patients. There were two teams for 2 lots of 5 days operating. In total we operated on 520 patients on 10 operating tables over 10 days. Personally I did 20 cases, 5 under local anaesthetic in young adults over 15 years of age. The highlight for me was catching up with Kiran, my dancing girl from the Blue Peter show whose lip I did in May. I was able to repair her palate this time. She came to give a goodbye card to myself and to my friend Dr Phil McDonald who was the anesthetist who looked after her when I was operating. We both were very moved when her father held our hands and said; "Thank you, you have changed my daughter's life forever"
That is why we go to help....(Per Hall)
Can you help us to continue support projects that Mr Hall and his other team members selflessly give their time, skill and compassion to, with the ever-present goal of helping a child or an adult with a cleft in developing countries, with ‘Operation Smile-uk Charity.
It takes as little as 45 minutes and £150 to change a child’s life forever!!
Thanking you for your support
Mr Hall, Kiran - dancing girl from Blue Peter Appeal and Dr Phil McDonald. December 2009
Kiran - dancing girl from Blue Peter before
her surgery (Guwahati, May 2009)
OPERATION SMILE WORK IN HAITI,
You can ead more about their work and see some fantastic pictures on OS facebook.