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  1. International projects

International 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.

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  • Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU) Half Marathon Fundraiser

    Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU) Half Marathon Fundraiser

    We are Hannah, Lucy, Sam and Jen. We are Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and researchers linked with the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU). We are passionate about supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication disorders, including cleft lip/palate. This year we are pulling out all the stops to get race-fit and take on the Bristol Great Run Half Marathon on 25th September in aid of CLEFT.

  • A film about CLEFT research

    A film about CLEFT research

    Our research film looks at the importance of research into the likely causes of cleft lip and palate and at the sort of research projects that CLEFT supports.

  • CLEFT's International work

    CLEFT's International work

    A new film by Paul Whiitaker shows some of the projects that CLEFT has been able to support so far and what our philosophy is with regards to supporting international centres, Our core ethos - of providing long-term, sustainable ways of bridging the gap in cleft care - is at the very heart of all we do.

  • Gillian McCarthy

    CLAPA Representative

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  • Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery

    Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery

    We are working with Bangladeshi specialists at the new Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery to create a sustainable centre to treat children with cleft lip and palate.

  • Our mission

    Our mission

    CLEFT was established in 2007 with one aim, to help improve the lives of children born with cleft lip and palate, either by funding research into the likely causes of the condition or by helping support teams in lower and middle income countries.

  • Donate

    Donate

    You can donate or sign up to a regular donation to help us plan for the future.

  • Brian Sommerlad, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Chair of Trustees

    For over 40 years, I have been involved in operating on babies, children and adults who have been born with cleft lip and/or palate.

  • The Great Bristol Run 2022

    The Great Bristol Run 2022

    This is an exciting half marathon race through Bristol and is CLEFT's first year taking part.

  • Nawrin and the C-Arm

    Nawrin and the C-Arm

    This important piece of equipment was supplied by CLEFT and is used to see moving images of the cleft palate. Nawrin is a 13 year old girl who was experiencing speech difficulties and needed the C-Arm to show the cleft team if further surgery was required.

  • The genetics of cleft lip and palate

    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.

  • MRI Speech Assessment

    MRI Speech Assessment

    This important research looked at using MRI to assess whether further surgery could improve speech for people with repaired clefts.

  • An interview with Brian Sommerlad

    An interview with Brian Sommerlad

    This is a wonderful interview where the children ask the questions.

  • About us

    About us

    CLEFT was established in 2007 by cleft surgeon Brian Sommerlad - based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, together with a former patient and a patient's grandmother.

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