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Post date: January 16, 2020

Title: The Gift of a Smile

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This Holiday season, give the gift that lasts a lifetime. Give the Gift of a Smile….to a poor child suffering from a facial deformity in a poor country. ICSF can provide a life-changing surgery for a poor child for only $290. Give the gift that lasts a lifetime, the Gift of a Smile!!!

Post date: January 16, 2020

Title: A Typical Mission Day

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As seen through the eyes of a volunteer

Having been on several ICSF missions, here’s what I, as a volunteer, have seen. The first day is when everyone who has learned about the mission comes to the hosting medical facility, hoping to have their child selected for surgery that will change their life.

Post date: January 16, 2020

Title: Message from the President

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The Travels of Michelle

No expense or effort is too much when it’s the welfare of your child—is what Michelle’s parents were thinking as they boarded the overnight boat trip to the island of Palawan, Philippines, on August 10 of this year.

Post date: January 16, 2020

Title: ICSF Serves Four Missions, including the 3rd Annual Beverly Williams Memorial Mission

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August through December, three locations in the Philippines and one in Bolivia were recipients of ICSF’s efforts to provide free treatment for facial deformities to poor children in developing countries—at the same level of care that American children receive.

Post date: January 02, 2019

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Jessica, Trans-equatorial baby

In a heartbeat I knew how to respond to the pleading email. A nonsurgical medical group had recently completed a mission to the highlands of Ecuador. One of the mission’s volunteers had just emailed me about a baby born with a cleft lip that had been brought to the mission but could not be treated because of the surgical nature of her problem. After telling me a little bit about nine-month-old Jessica and her bilateral cleft lip, the volunteer pleaded: “Do you have teams that work in Ecuador?”

Post date: January 02, 2019

Title: The Gift of a Smile

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Ashley Joy received the Gift of a Smile three years ago by ICSF. She uses her gift every day and will continue to for the rest of her life.

Post date: January 02, 2019

Title: ICSF Serves in the Philippines and Marks its Twentieth Year in Vietnam

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Fifty-three children in the Philippines and Vietnam received free surgery by ICSF in August. Also, roughly eighty hours of one-on-one training to local health professionals was rendered, further enabling local doctors to treat their own patients.

Post date: December 16, 2016

Title: ICSF Serves Missions in All Four Hemispheres May-August

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Children with a variety of burn and congenital facial deformities were treated free of charge by ICSF in the countries of Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines, May through August.

Post date: December 16, 2016

Title: ICSF Says Goodbye to Founding Member, Beverly Williams

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By Dr. Geoff Williams, ICSF president

Beverly Williams, co-founder and secretary-treasurer of ICSF, passed away unexpectedly on July 19, 2016, at the age of 86 while working in her vegetable garden at her home in Boise, Idaho. Her garden was a place she loved and loved to work in — and the place that she had repeatedly said she wanted to pass away in when the time came.

Post date: December 16, 2016

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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The One

Thirteen-month-old Mario came to ICSF’s Guatemala City mission late. I first became aware of Mario’s presence in the room when we were seeing the last of the children with cleft lips and palates and had a nearly full schedule. I was asked to come to the other side of the large clinic room, where I saw a young father holding a child in a blanket, the mother at his side. I could not see the child at first because a small crowd of clinic workers and nurses had crowded around, a tip-off that someone very unusual was being held within the colorful blanket.