63! When you take a moment to think of how many lives are forever changed, you can't help but feel emotional. Although we worked with mostly young children, our oldest patient was 48!ĭespite the challenges of a typhoon and a volcano eruption in the weeks prior to our mission, and the news of coronavirus, our FEARLESS volunteers made the long journey to provide new smiles and hope to 63 patients. Upon discharge, each patient received a care sheet and a backpack of items including clothes, toys, and a toothbrush/toothpaste. We visited one elementary school and 1,000 children were provided with dental education, a toothbrush, toothpaste, and an oral hygiene pamphlet school scholarships were provided to 6 of our patients through our Education Fund most of our patients worked with a speech therapist and took home a kit to practice correct speech sounds at home and many received much-needed dental care. Mission 2020 in Kalibo, Philippines was a great success! 63 patients and 77 cleft lip and/or palate procedures! Rene can toss his mask aside and no longer He no longer will have toĭon a mask to 'COVER UP' just to feel comfortable in society. Rene has such kind eyes and now will have a beautiful warm smile. His cleft lip surgery was a huge success and just a few hours post surgery the results were

So now after 48 years of being a selfless giving father it was time for him to take care of Was the one that saw the signs posted around the community saying that Mending Faces would be comingįebruary 2-7, 2020. The daughter that was accompanying him was a school teacher and she He has 4 children and worked hard to raise them and put all four of Rene Francisco a 48 year old male and he is approved for surgery. NOW? At his age? What must his life have been like ALL these years with this ? As it turns out his name is Now, I am thinking to myself WHY would he want to undergo this surgery

He removed his mask andĮxposed his severe bilateral clef lip. To my surprise, the father was the one to sit in the screening chair to be examined. Next to him patiently waiting to be called into the screening room. He was a thin older man with his daughter sitting I felt compelled to write a blog about this one patientĪnd his daughter that stood out to me in the waiting room. It made me think about 'THE POWER OF THE MASK'. Wearing a mask likeĮVERYONE else in the waiting room made them FEEL normal.like NOTHING was wrong. Help but think that some were wearing them to cover their cleft lips disfigurements. Some wore the masks for protection but I couldn't Well as the patients in the waiting room also had masks on. Rafael S.Tumbokon Memorial Hospital most of the staff as Thinking back on the first day of screening at Dr. The Manila airport one couldn't help but notice that the airports entire population had donned their face masks toĪvoid contacting this Covid19 virus. With the exception of the FACE MASKS, traveling through Its just crazy.but that is a story for a different day. People hoarding toilet paper, food, hand sanitizer, FACE MASKS, etc. NORMAL LIFE ? What is THAT? How bazaar to be faced with the issues we areĮxperiencing right now in this world. Hopefully we all have recovered from jet lag and have pretty much returned back to NORMAL life post mission. It's been over a month since returning from the Mending Faces Mission trip in Kalibo, Philippines 2020.

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