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  1. What we do
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Overseas Projects

The CLEFT team regularly visits and works with local teams, helping to provide education and training and donating much-needed equipment.

We do not sponsor individual operations and we do not send large and expensive short-term 'parachute missions' to perform many operations in a short space of time, with no follow up or long term care.

Our goal is to support local teams so that children born with clefts in these countries will have the same opportunities of having quality cleft care as those in the UK.

To date, CLEFT has supported teams in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Uganda. We have recently started to work in Kurdistan and we are looking to set up a new cleft centre in Khulna, Bangladesh.

Treating craniofacial clefts

Treating craniofacial clefts

Craniofacial clefts are large clefts that can affect the face, eyes, nose and mouth. Read more

Published: 8th October, 2019

Updated: 27th April, 2020

Author: Melanie Baldwin

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  • Bangladesh
Sohag workshop

Sohag workshop

The CLEFT workshop is held annually in Sohag. Read more

Published: 4th October, 2019

Updated: 27th October, 2020

Author: Melanie Baldwin

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    New Year, New Breads - Online Event - SOLD OUT!!

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    Valentines Wine Tasting - ONLINE EVENT

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    A trip to the roof of the world

    A group of 12 adventurers, aged between 12 and 58 years old, left London in October 2019 for the challenge of a lifetime – to climb Mount Kilimajaro in Tanzania. Everyone had spent a year planning, training and fundraising for it and were ready for the challenges that lay ahead. CLEFT trustee and Kilimanjaro climber, Tracy Morris, tells us her story....

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    The genetics of cleft lip and palate

    Investigations into the genetics of cleft lip and palate to understand more about why cleft lip and palate occurs.

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    Bangladesh cleft clinic seeing patients again

    The pandemic has been hard on everyone, especially so when patients are unable to be seen. With Covid levels low enough, the cleft team in Bangladesh has been able to resume clinic.

Pay for new parts for the anaesthetic machine in Dhaka

Pay for new parts for the anaesthetic machine in Dhaka

The anaesthetic machine that was supplied by CLEFT to the hospital in Dhaka needs new parts. Donate now and help pay for the new parts to get this vital piece of equipment working again. Read more

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Published: 13th October, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Author: Melanie Baldwin

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