Operation Smile or Guess Who Has A New Lip?!

Our little Nancy had a very successful cleft lip surgery on April 22nd. We are so thankful to Operation Smile and their international team who traveled to Zhengzhou to do approximately 120 surgeries in just a few days. Our visiting nurse, Cathy from Australia, took Nancy and two other children to be evaluated by the team. Unfortunately, only Nancy was able to have surgery, but we are thankful for the beautiful job that was done on her lip and new friends and contacts made.

One of those contacts was a speech therapist with Operation Smile, based in Hangzhou. A very wonderful twist of fate is that Jiaozuo is this young woman's hometown! So she asked if she could come and evaluate some of our children while she was visiting family in the area. Talk about an offer too good to refuse! We were so thrilled to have her great advice as she did one-on-one speech evaluations with 15 children and then spent some time discussing speech issues and some basic therapies with our management team. We look forward to developing this relationship more in the future and also accessing some other services of Operation Smile now that we have made some contacts.  All things really DO work together, don't they?

With a thankful heart,
Donna
Director, Eagles Wings