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Smile Train is a nonprofit organization and charity providing corrective surgery for children with cleft lips and palates. [1] Headquartered in New York City and founded in 1999, Smile Train provides free corrective cleft surgery in 87 countries, [ 2 ] training local doctors and providing hospital funding for the procedures.
Charles Wang. Charles B. Wang ( Chinese: 王嘉廉; pinyin: Wáng Jiālián; August 19, 1944 – October 21, 2018) was a Chinese-American billionaire, businessman, and philanthropist, who was a co-founder and CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. (later renamed CA Technologies ). He was a minority owner (and past majority owner) of the ...
For each mission, Operation Smile verifies the credentials and organizes the participation and travel arrangements for a team of volunteers. [6] The team typically includes a mission site coordinator, plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, a pediatrician, an intensive care physician, head or coordinating nurse, pre- and post-op nurses, child development specialists, speech pathologists, [7 ...
Thousands of dollars raised by a charity that falsely claimed it would help residents affected by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border earlier this year will be turned over to a food ...
In fact, Smile Train supported its 2 millionth free cleft surgery this year. Because of my passion for cleft advocacy, one of the key roles I am honored to fulfill is serving on Smile Train’s ...
Release. September 4, 1966. ( 1966-09-04) –. August 31, 2014. ( 2014-08-31) The MDA Labor Day Telethon[ 1] was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Muscular Dystrophy Association was founded in 1950 with hopes of ...
A cancer charity has exposed the “scandal” of patients being denied valuable respite on holiday as they are unable to secure affordable travel insurance because of their “misunderstood ...
Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE ( / kəˈmɪlə bætmænˈɡɛlɪdʒ /; Persian: کامیلا باتمانقلیچ; 1963 [ a][ 1][ 2] – 1 January 2024) was an Iranian-Belgian author, psychotherapist, and charity executive based in the United Kingdom. [ 3][ 4][ 5] She was the founder of the charity Kids Company (closed in 2015) and Place2Be ...