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The Children of Sumatra was set up with the aim of helping children suffering from cleft lip and palate living on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Many families there are too poor to pay for a simple operation that can transform their child’s future. In Europe and America we are almost unaware of this condition as it is corrected within the first year of a child’s life but in Indonesia this is not the case and the condition affects 1 in 300 children. Here are some of the children we have been able to help...
Before & after operations
Siti is a very courageous young girl who we are helping with a separate appeal to fund vital operations to improve her quality of life. She has suffered for 15 years after part of her face was eaten away at the age of 5 by a gangrenous noma. Siti underwent her first operation in Bandung, Java on the 9th November. Unfortunately there were major complications and we have now taken Siti to Holland for further operations. She will be having a small operation on Friday to remove a bone graft and cover her jaw bone. Then in about six weeks she will have her face reconstructed. She is healing well now and starting to gain weight. Karin Perrson, a volunteer for COS, is also raising funds for this cause on behalf of us.
Location of our work Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world, and the third largest in the Indonesian archipelago. Lying between the Indian Ocean and the peninsula of Malaysia and Singapore, Sumatra sits parallel to the fault line, which runs up the west coast. This is where two tectonic plates meet, and it was movement caused by the immense build up of pressure along this fault line that resulted in the tsunami in December 2004. Worst hit was the northern tip of Sumatra, particularly Aceh province. The work of The Children of Sumatra started on the island of Pulau Weh (also known as Sabang) in Aceh province. We now work over a large area of Northern Sumatra spreading as far south as Pekanbaru. Newsletter downloads: |
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