International project: cleft lip/cleft palate surgery – Indonesia

Creating Smiles – Transforming Lives
In 2000, in line with our Rotary mission to provide ‘Service’ to those in need worldwide, the Club’s International Committee agreed to join 17 other Rotary Clubs in Bali, Germany, Luxembourg, and the United States – to help fund this project to be run by the RC of Nusa Dua on the island of Bali. Since 1994 the Indonesian Club had successfully managed a series of cleft lip/palate projects, supported by overseas funding, resulting in more than 1700 children aged between 3 and 12 years having corrective surgery. The current project target is for a further 200 children to benefit from surgery and thus greatly enhance their life chances.
Our Club donation of £2000 was enhanced by £700 from our twin Club in France (RC of Blanquefort en Medoc) and further boosted by £5000 from our Rotary District (covering the county of Somerset and the western parts of Dorset and Wiltshire). Through the Rotary Foundation (one of the top four- star rated charities in the world) donations from all contributing Rotary Clubs and Districts were further enhanced under the Global Grants scheme.
Despite the delays and added complications of the Covid pandemic during 2021 a total of 68 operations (Yesinta’s being the most recent) had been completed on children from Bali and the outlying islands of Ambon, Sumba and Timor. 
See – RC Bali Nusa Dua Cleft Lip & Palate Project on YouTube
https://lnkd.in/dSKjBTGm