10/24/2019 Today our amazing team completed 3 lip surgeries.
Category: Yangon
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Meet with Bhone Myat and his family – Day 9
10/23/2019 Today our amazing team completed 8 surgeries. 3 lips, 4 palates and 1 lip+palate. Today we are featuring 3 year old Bhone Myat Zin. Bhone is also from Mandalay. Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It’s located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 716 km (445 mi) north of...
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Thaw’s Story – Day 8
10/22/2019 Today our amazing team completed 8 surgeries. 1 rhinoplasty, 6 palates, and 1 lip + palate. Today we are featuring 8-month-old Thaw Zin Tun. Thaw is from Mandalay. Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It’s located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 716 km (445 mi) north of Yangon....
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Phu’s Story – Day 7
10/21/2019 Today our amazing team completed 8 surgeries. 3 lips, 4 palates, and 1 lip + palate. Today we are featuring 4-year-old Phu Thit Wai. Another walk-in success story. Phu is from Zalon, in the Pin Pone Township, Myanmar. Zalon is the central part of Myanmar. Phu Thit traveled with her grandmother Shwe Thet &...
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Meet with Yati Hlun – Day 6
10/19/2019 Today our amazing team completed 9 surgeries. 7 lips, and 2 additional oral procedures. Today we are featuring 5-month-old Yati Hlun Htun. A walk-in success story. Yati Hlun is from Pyar Pone, Sanchaung Township, Myanmar. Pyar Pone is in the north-central part of Yangon. Yati Hlun traveled with her mother Saung Yadi via car...
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Khay Hlynn’s Story – Day 5
10/18/2019 Today we are featuring 4 year old Khay Hlynn Sai from Nalong Village, Thiabaw, Myanmar. Nalong Village is on the northwestern boarder of Myanmar and China. Khay Hlynn traveled over 20 hours via bus with his mother Lait Sai. When asked about her travels to Yangon and Victoria Hospital she said it was very...
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Aye Nyein’ story – Day 4
10/17/2019 Today we are featuring 2 year old Aye Nyein Thu from Mawlamyine. Mawlamyine is the fourth largest city of Mayanmar, 300 km south east of Yangon. Aye Nyein traveled via bus for over 6 hours with her mother Daw Khin Thein and father Aye Nyein. We love her beautiful new smile. In addition, we...
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Opening clinic – Day 1 + 2
10/15/2019 Amazing arrival and visit on Sunday night. Our first and second days Triange, clinic, screening and surgeries have been a huge success! We completed 10 surgeries, 9 lips and 1 lip+palate.
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“Everybody Loves Him” – One Year Later
By Daniel Krieger for Alliance for Smiles When Arkhar Htet (“Everybody Loves Him”) was born with a cleft lip and palate, his dad, U Zaw Zaw Naing, was afraid to tell his wife. Fearing what she might think of his birth defect, he sat down and explained to her before she saw the baby that...