Creating Smiles – Transforming Lives

Chelwood Bridge Rotary supporting an International Project: 

Cleft Lip/Cleft Palate Surgery – Indonesia.

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. It is 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 2,000 children aged between 3 and 12 years having corrective surgery. Our Clubs donation of £2,700 was further boosted by £5,000 from our Rotary District (which covers Somerset and the western parts of Dorset and Wiltshire). The picture is a photo of Tiara the 2,000th patient, and shows the life changing difference that the operation can make.