A Before and After Photo

It’s getting towards the end of our week here in Guatemala, but we’re still moving at full speed ahead. We welcomed two new team members today – Angela and Sam – to do some videography work. Since we’ve been here a few days, word has spread and we’re starting to receive walk-in patients, some of whom have been accommodated.

One of our scheduled patients, Angel Victor Quino Quino, is a 1 year old Guatemalan native who’s family speaks Quiche, was born with cleft lip. Our surgery on Angel was yesterday and he has done great! Here are some before and after photos…

Angel Victor Quino Quino - Before

Angel Victor Quino Quino - After

Guatemala 2010

Life of the hard-working people of  San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala seems to be continuing as usual, but we of the Free to Smile Foundation doing our best to add to the  hustle and bustle this week. As of now, we’ve finished two full days of surgeries with minimal complications in which Drs. Henry, Claudio and Sinard have successfully completed cleft palate, cleft lip, and hernia surgeries on patients as young as 8 months and as old as 69 years. With the wonderful support of their hopeful and positive families and the Centro de Salud Barbara nurses, all of the patients are recovering well.

Dr. Claudio and some of the Centro de Salud Barbara Team

A full update as well as some before and after photos of patients will be coming soon!

FTS Receives $12,000 from Smile for Kidds

On September 24th, 2009 the Kidds Foundation held it’s 2nd Annual Golf Outing, raising $12,000 for the Free to Smile Foundation. Free to Smile thanks The Paragon Program and Zimmerman, Boltz & Company for all their efforts and hard work with the Kidds Foundation. With this generous donation to Free to Smile Foundation, we can continue our quest to help the forgotten cleft child throughout the world.

EXCITING TIMES FOR FTS–

Hello to our friends and supporters of Free to Smile Foundation,

This week is an extremely important week for us here at FTS.  As of today, we are marking our first year as a foundation and our website is now officially up and running!!  Please take a peek at all the fabulous things that are happening via FTS, its volunteers and your support dollars by checking out our website at www.freetosmile.org.  Again, many thanks for believing in us and helping the forgotten cleft children throughout the world!

Welcome to the Free to Smile Foundation’s blog site!

Welcome to the Free to Smile Foundation’s blog site!   Here we hope to keep the supporters of FTS up to date on the latest happenings of our foundation.   Our hope is to fill you in on all the events no matter how grand or small and to help you to connect with the many children and adolescence that we are helping throughout the world. Please check back from time to time for our latest postings and news.