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'''Facing the World''' is a [[United Kingdom]]-based [[charitable organization|charity]] that offers [[reconstructive surgery|surgery]] to children with facial disfigurements. All the children offered surgery are from poor countries where they would have no other access to surgery to help them overcome their disfigurements. |
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'''Facing the World''' is a UK-registered charity, promoting surgery for children with facial differences. It was founded in 2002 by two surgeons, [[Natascha_McElhone#Personal_life|Martin Hirigoyen Kelly]] and Norman Waterhouse, and was originally focused on bringing children from the developing world to the UK for surgery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facing the World - Overview |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04427304 |publisher=Companies House |accessdate=22 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Watts |first1=Geoff |s2cid=54309762 |title=Obituary: Martin Hirigoyen Kelly |journal=The Lancet |date=July 2008 |volume=372 |issue=9632 |pages=24 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60979-4}} {{open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Parkinson |first1=Caroline |title=Helping children show their faces |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6147566.stm |work=BBC |date=15 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Rebecca |title=Last King of Scotland boy has face rebuilt by UK surgeons |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/2403910/Last-King-of-Scotland-boy-has-face-rebuilt-by-UK-surgeons.html |work=The Telegraph |date=15 July 2008}}</ref> |
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Over time it came to focus mostly on Vietnam, and on training Vietnamese doctors in the surgeries, sending UK doctors to Vietnam to perform surgeries, and providing equipment to Vietnamese hospitals; it became active in Vietnam in 2008.<ref name=VN/> It has cooperated with two hospitals in [[Hanoi]]<ref name=VN>{{cite web |title=Boosting children's 'face value', confidence |url=https://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/415972/boosting-childrens-face-value-confidence.html |publisher=Vietnam News |language=en|date=5 November 2017|first1=Nguyễn |last1=Mỹ Hà|first2=Phạm |last2=Diễm Quỳnh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hong Ngoc Hospital, Facing the World offer free surgeries for disfigured children |url=https://english.vov.vn/society/hong-ngoc-hospital-facing-the-world-offer-free-surgeries-for-disfigured-children-374244.vov |work=Voice of Vietnam Online Newspaper |date=9 May 2018}}</ref> and a hospital in [[Da Nang]].<ref>{{cite news |title=UK organisation to help building Craniofacial Surgery Faculty |url=http://baodanang.vn/english/politics/201504/uk-organisation-to-help-building-craniofacial-surgery-faculty-2409069/ |publisher=DaNangToDay |date=17 April 2015}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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Facing the World was set up in 2003 by [[Norman Waterhouse]] and [[Martin Hirigoyen Kelly]], two [[craniofacial]] [[plastic surgery|plastic surgeons]] at the [[Chelsea and Westminster Hospital]]. Both had formerly volunteered their time and skills to medical outreach charities abroad, but had been touched by cases of children that they were unable to help because of the limited facilities and lack of expertise in the countries in which they were working. With Facing the World they determined to bring children to the UK for surgery, rather than attempting to perform the operations with the limited infrastructure of the children's home countries. Bringing the children to the UK allowed them to draw on the skills of other like-minded UK medical professionals. Sarah Driver-Jowitt was hired to manage the charity and in 2004 an office was established close to the [[London]] hospitals where the majority of the surgeries are performed. The charity was launched publicly on 15 February 2003 at a charity fund-raising [[premiere]] of the film ''[[Solaris (2002 film)|Solaris]]'' attended by [[George Clooney]] and his co-stars. |
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*[[Effects of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese people]] |
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The charity provides treatment for children from poor countries who have severe facial disfigurements that have significant functional challenges or are likely to cause them deep emotional and psychological trauma as a result of community stigma. |
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The children are assessed in their own country, so the doctors can ascertain whether the individual could be helped by surgery and what specialist care will be required. If the assessment is positive arrangements are made to fly the child to London for treatment. The medical team donate their services and the charity relies on fund raising and donations to fund the remaining medical costs, travel and accommodation for the child and a guardian. |
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==Further reading== |
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Facing the World was featured in an hour-long [[Channel 4]] documentary ''My New Face'' on 15 November 2006. The documentary covered the work of the charity over the period of a year, and featured the cases of Arianto from Jakarta, who suffered [[gigantism]] of one side of his face caused by [[neurofibromatosis]]; Ney, a [[Khmer people|Cambodian]] boy who was born with [[encephalocele]] (his brain protruded into his face through a defect in his skull); Zaynab, an eight-month old girl from [[Gaza]] who had a [[cleft palate]] and [[hare lip]]; and Eyerusalem from [[Addis Ababa]], one of the charity's earliest patients who had a vascular malformation removed in 2003. |
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*{{cite journal |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=N |last2=Ong |first2=J |last3=Driver-Jowitt |first3=S |last4=Eccles |first4=S |title=Facing the World: the evolution of a craniofacial charity. |journal=Annals of Plastic Surgery |date=February 2013 |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=127–30 |doi=10.1097/SAP.0b013e31822510b0 |pmid=23038134}} |
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*{{cite news |last1=Waterhouse |first1=Norman |title=Obituary: Martin Kelly |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/may/26/health |work=The Guardian |date=25 May 2008 |language=en}} |
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In February 2010, Facing the World managed to secure the paperwork to allow Landina Seignon, a three month old Haitian orphan to travel to the United Kingdom for treatment. Landina suffered a significant burns prior to the earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010. The hospital in which she was being treated collapsed and Landina was rescued two days later suffering a life threatening cranial fracture and necessitating the amputation of her right arm. Landina was brought to the United Kingdom for the craniofacial surgery that she desperately needed. Facing the World is covering all her medical and other costs. |
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*{{Official website|facingtheworld.net}} |
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*{{cite web|title=Facing the World|url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3991307|publisher=[[Charity Commission]]|language=en}} |
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{{Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery}} |
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Facing the World was featured in an hour long [[Five(TV Channel)]]] documentary ''7 New Faces in 7 Days'' on 28 June 2010. The documentary covered charities training visit to Danang, Vietnam and featured a number of the patients treated in Vietnam as well as three patients who came to the UK for training. [http://www.five.tv/programmes/documentaries/extraordinary-people/82394 Extraordinary People: 7 New Faces in 7 Days] |
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.facingtheworld.co.uk/|title=Facing the World|publisher=Facing the World|date=2007|accessdate=26 January 2007}} |
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*{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6147566.stm|title=Helping children show their faces|publisher=BBC|date=2006-11-15|author=Caroline Parkinson|accessdate=26 January 2007}} |
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*{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7039954.stm|title=How surgeons rebuilt a child's face|publisher=BBC|date=2007-11-04|author=Jane Elliott|accessdate=4 November 2007}} |
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/americas/qampa+injured+haitian+baby+landina+seignon/3538252|title=Q&A: injured Haitian baby Landina Seignon|publisher=Channel 4|date=2010-02-12|accessdate=15 February 2010}} |
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Latest revision as of 05:24, 27 September 2023
Facing the World is a UK-registered charity, promoting surgery for children with facial differences. It was founded in 2002 by two surgeons, Martin Hirigoyen Kelly and Norman Waterhouse, and was originally focused on bringing children from the developing world to the UK for surgery.[1][2][3][4]
Over time it came to focus mostly on Vietnam, and on training Vietnamese doctors in the surgeries, sending UK doctors to Vietnam to perform surgeries, and providing equipment to Vietnamese hospitals; it became active in Vietnam in 2008.[5] It has cooperated with two hospitals in Hanoi[5][6] and a hospital in Da Nang.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Facing the World - Overview". Companies House. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ Watts, Geoff (July 2008). "Obituary: Martin Hirigoyen Kelly". The Lancet. 372 (9632): 24. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60979-4. S2CID 54309762.
- ^ Parkinson, Caroline (15 November 2006). "Helping children show their faces". BBC.
- ^ Smith, Rebecca (15 July 2008). "Last King of Scotland boy has face rebuilt by UK surgeons". The Telegraph.
- ^ a b Mỹ Hà, Nguyễn; Diễm Quỳnh, Phạm (5 November 2017). "Boosting children's 'face value', confidence". Vietnam News.
- ^ "Hong Ngoc Hospital, Facing the World offer free surgeries for disfigured children". Voice of Vietnam Online Newspaper. 9 May 2018.
- ^ "UK organisation to help building Craniofacial Surgery Faculty". DaNangToDay. 17 April 2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Kirkpatrick, N; Ong, J; Driver-Jowitt, S; Eccles, S (February 2013). "Facing the World: the evolution of a craniofacial charity". Annals of Plastic Surgery. 70 (2): 127–30. doi:10.1097/SAP.0b013e31822510b0. PMID 23038134.
- Waterhouse, Norman (25 May 2008). "Obituary: Martin Kelly". The Guardian.