Facing The World
https://www.facingtheworld.net/index.php
FACING THE WORLD is a children's charity. It has been set up by some of the UK's leading craniofacial surgeons so that children in desperate need, living without hope in the world's poorest countries, can have access to the very best surgery that can transform their faces and radically change their quality of life.
We, and our volunteer team of experts, offer facial reconstructive surgery at leading hospitals to children from poor countries across the globe that have no other chance of finding the surgery to help them overcome their disfigurement. We will also support the development of new ways of treating severe and sometimes devastating facial disfigurements through research. Finally we are involved in training doctors and nurses in the latest techniques to treat disfigurement.
Facing the World has the medical resources, the infrastructure, the desire and the determination to change the life of these children who have no hope.
Thank you for helping Facing The World provide this desperately needed surgery.
Together we can give more children the chance to smile.
The face, say the poet, is the window to the soul. It presents us to the world, expressing how we fell without a word being said. The face bears our identity, our character and our individuality. Most of us are able to take this for granted and can enjoy all that life has to offer without thought. Life is very different for those people who have faces that look 'different'.
They are outsiders who suffer from the stares of strangers and the torment of being treated differently. Affected children endure the anguish of their distraught parents and relatives, cannot forge friendships easily, and suffer at school. There can be many reasons. Some children are disfigured from birth because their parents carry a hidden gene; others are exposed to environmental pollutants before they are born.
Sometimes the reason isn't obvious. Some start their lives as healthy babies but are struck down by tumours.
Whatever the cause, the result is the same: a child with a disfigurement can be excluded, isolated and stigmatised. Perhaps more important are the deep emotional and psychological scars that run with it. Such children born in the West often have access to excellent health care, to surgeons who operate on children with the severest disfigurements and the councelors needed to maintain their confidence.
Children in poor countries do not.....
Facing the World was founded in part as a result of the experiences of a number of craniofacial surgeons. Volunteering abroad they were moved by the children they were not able to help because of limited infrastructure, equipment and time. Many children required multidisciplinary teams that were impossible to bring together for an outreach clinic.
We aim to treat the most severely disfigured children at the end of other organisations queues. Children who - as a result of the lack of skills, infrastructure, finances and social prejudice - are unable to have the chance for a normal life.
We, and our volunteer team of experts, offer facial reconstructive surgery at leading hospitals to children from poor countries across the globe that have no other chance of finding the surgery to help them overcome their disfigurement. We will also support the development of new ways of treating severe and sometimes devastating facial disfigurements through research. Finally we are involved in training doctors and nurses in the latest techniques to treat disfigurement.
Facing the World has the medical resources, the infrastructure, the desire and the determination to change the life of these children who have no hope.
Thank you for helping Facing The World provide this desperately needed surgery.
Together we can give more children the chance to smile.
The face, say the poet, is the window to the soul. It presents us to the world, expressing how we fell without a word being said. The face bears our identity, our character and our individuality. Most of us are able to take this for granted and can enjoy all that life has to offer without thought. Life is very different for those people who have faces that look 'different'.
They are outsiders who suffer from the stares of strangers and the torment of being treated differently. Affected children endure the anguish of their distraught parents and relatives, cannot forge friendships easily, and suffer at school. There can be many reasons. Some children are disfigured from birth because their parents carry a hidden gene; others are exposed to environmental pollutants before they are born.
Sometimes the reason isn't obvious. Some start their lives as healthy babies but are struck down by tumours.
Whatever the cause, the result is the same: a child with a disfigurement can be excluded, isolated and stigmatised. Perhaps more important are the deep emotional and psychological scars that run with it. Such children born in the West often have access to excellent health care, to surgeons who operate on children with the severest disfigurements and the councelors needed to maintain their confidence.
Children in poor countries do not.....
Facing the World was founded in part as a result of the experiences of a number of craniofacial surgeons. Volunteering abroad they were moved by the children they were not able to help because of limited infrastructure, equipment and time. Many children required multidisciplinary teams that were impossible to bring together for an outreach clinic.
We aim to treat the most severely disfigured children at the end of other organisations queues. Children who - as a result of the lack of skills, infrastructure, finances and social prejudice - are unable to have the chance for a normal life.