Facing the World
Facing the World is a UK-based charity that helps children with birth defects that disfigure their faces by enabling them to receive craniofacial surgery.[1] 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.[2][3] Over time it came to focus 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.[1]
It has cooperated with two hospitals in Hanoi[1][4] and a hospital in Da Nang.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Mỹ Hà, Nguyễn; Diễm Quỳnh, Phạm (5 November 2017). "Boosting children's 'face value', confidence". Vietnam News.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Official website
- "Facing the World". Charity Commission.
Further reading
- 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.