Operation Smile 2014
Published: 27 Feb 2014
Operation Smile is an international charity organisation set up to provide impoverished kids with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities, with reconstructive surgeries. Each year, Operation Smile Singapore goes to about 10 countries in Asia and South East Asia to help the kids over there.
Each surgery for cleft lip and cleft palate only costs about USD 240, and in a span of 30 minutes, a child can be free from a life time of social discrimination and malnutrition from not being able to eat properly.
Set up in 2012, Operation Smile Student Chapter @ NUS Medical Chapter aims to allow passionate students to contribute towards this cause by raising funds for the organisation and reaching out to the public to increase awareness.
These projects benefit not only the patients, as student volunteers are also provided opportunities to learn and lead in different capacities. The experience and knowledge gained will prove valuable to them in the years to come. Indeed, those who give will often end up receiving something more valuable in return!
Student volunteers from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine will be heading to Mongolia with Operation Smile Team for an Overseas Community Involvement Project (OCIP). In a bid to raise funds for this meaningful trip, the student volunteers sold food and merchandise. A total of $1,800 was raised from the sale of donuts, T-shirts, files and flowers, all thanks to the great support from the students, staff and public.
We wish them all the best in their endeavour to contribute to this good cause!
