Look what CPWF made for our operating rooms. Each OR has flags from various team members. Jenny is holding the CPWF flag, and Paul is holding the Alliance for Smiles flag. CPWF (China Population Welfare Foundation) has been our partner on the ground in China since our very first mission in 2005. We couldn’t have...
Day 3 of surgery is well underway. Yesterday a surgical team from Kunming arrived on the invitation of the hospital and CPWF, our Chinese partner, to ensure that all of the eligible patients would receive their cleft lip and palate surgery. Over the next two and half days, they will handle the overflow of qualifying...
Our International Team in Zhaotong, China! Myrna Sullivan OR nurse from USA, Li Xiaolin from CPWF in China, Lynn Chan anesthesiologist from Australia, and Li Bin anesthesiologist from China! Click Here for more stories from the Alliance for Smiles 2018 Zhaotong, China Mission!
It’s Day Two in the OR for the Zhaotong 2018 mission. There are 7 surgeries on the schedule today, our first day for palate repairs. Patients range in age from 5 months to 12 years. Today was also the first day for rounds by the surgeons to see the patients from yesterday. They are recovering...
The sun was out today after many days of rain here in San Francisco. That made us smile just like this little adorable girl we met last year on one of our missions to China.
Xi turned five years old while he was in the hospital in Wenzhou, China. He had never had his birthday celebrated before. His family is poor and they don’t have money to buy each other presents. So something like cleft surgery was always just a dream. During his stay, the team asked all of the...
