Operation Smile Australia
Nurse Lynne Shands recently completed her 12th Operation Smile program. It was her fourth in India, where she travelled to Jhansi alongside her daughter, Liz. It was Liz who first introduced her mother to Operation Smile Australia’s work after completing her own program in Ghana,…
World Smile Day is recognised each year on the first Friday in October. This year, it falls on October 2. It is an international day dedicated to kindness and to the difference one person can make in another person’s life. For Operation Smile Australia, it…
Global health is stronger when clinicians step outside their own systems to learn—and then bring those lessons home. The impact can reach far beyond a single hospital or patient. For Dr Lia Tagulinao, a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon from Manila and former volunteer with Operation…
This Craniofacial Awareness Month, we’re revisiting Amrita’s story – six years after two successful surgeries with Operation Smile Australia (OSA) changed the course of her life. After 12 unsuccessful surgeries, Amrita was…
India
When baby Shahid was born, the midwife gently told his mother Shahida to look at his face. Her joy as a new mother turned quickly to heartbreak—Shahid had a cleft…
Philippines
Dr Richard Lewandowski and Dr Julio Santos recently sat down to talk with Stryker employee Chris Waxman to talk about the long-term partnership between Stryker and Operation Smile Australia and…
For Portia Bennett, the journey from being a child born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate to running the Great Ocean Road Marathon in support of Operation Smile Australia…
Philippines
A few weeks ago, we sent a team of medical volunteers to Manila in the Philippines to provide surgery to 8 children, all born with major craniofacial conditions. We couldn’t…
