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Post date: March 12, 2013

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Emver’s Emergency

Emver’s parents were worried. Earlier, they had been elated that their son had had his long awaited cleft lip surgery. It was now twelve days after surgery, however, and 18-month-old Emver was beginning to show signs of a serious infection.

Post date: January 10, 2013

Title: Patient's Father Produces Video for ICSF

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By Eric Wall, Houston, Texas

View the video It's Their Time

Our son, David, constantly drooled. Because of his cleft palate, his bibs would get soaked. He would spit up volumes and required constant clean-up. It was a hard time for us, his family.

Post date: December 20, 2012

Title: The Gift of a Smile

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Remembering Marissa, ICSF’s First Poster Child

Post date: December 17, 2012

Title: ICSF Serves All Four Hemispheres — Again

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Poor children with cleft lips and palates, congenital absence of the ear, and burn deformities received free surgeries from ICSF in the countries of Vietnam, the Philippines, Mexico, and Peru.

Post date: December 16, 2012

Title: ICSF says goodbye to a founding board member

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By Dr. Geoffrey Williams, ICSF President

ICSF suffered a great loss on October 1, 2012, with the untimely death of Board of Directors member Dr. Michael Jensen. Dr. Jensen was a long-time and trusted friend of mine and was the first person I called upon when choosing ICSF’s initial Board of Directors in 2005.

Post date: December 15, 2012

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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A Mother’s Report

You never know just how much ICSF's work impacts the lives of its patients. Five-year-old Tara had come to ICSF’s 2011 medical mission with an asymmetric bilateral (two-sided) cleft lip and a cleft palate. All went well with Tara's lip surgery and again with her palate surgery in February 2012. In July 2012 Tara was transported to ICSF’s annual speech therapy mission on a nearby island, where she excelled in learning how to speak with her newly repaired palate.

Post date: August 05, 2012

Title: ICSF to Serve 16 Missions in 2012 — including 7 in the Philippines

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Like usual, the first quarter of 2012 saw ICSF off to a running start — in spite of ICSF’s head of home operations, Beverly Williams, undergoing major shoulder joint replacement surgery. In January through March, ICSF served five missions to the countries of Mexico, Bolivia, and the Philippines, providing free surgery to 91 children and young adults suffering from congenital and traumatic deformities. A total of 16 missions are planned for the year, with seven in the Philippines.

Post date: August 04, 2012

Title: THE SPECIAL CASE OF BEN SONGAHID

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When Ben Songahid, age seven, came to ICSF’s 2011 Kabankalan Philippines mission, he was very thin, like many other Filipino children. More importantly, however, Ben was found to be severely anemic, necessitating cancellation of his surgery.

Post date: August 03, 2012

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Jowena’s Time

It certainly was not Jowena’s time in January, 2009. Jowena’s mother had brought her to ICSF’s annual Kabankalan, Philippines, cleft palate mission, hoping to have her daughter’s bilateral cleft lip corrected. The one-year-old little girl had come to the mission healthy, but when her scheduled day for surgery arrived, she had a high fever and a deep cough, necessitating the cancellation of her surgery. Jowena’s beautiful mother received the bad news politely. Her quiet reply, however, “OK, Doc, I understand,” could not hide her disappointment. Although her daughter was only one year old she could not be comforted with the news “You’ll be taken care of next year.”

Post date: August 01, 2012

Title: Impossible without Her!

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How is it possible for an organization with no paid employees to do seven team missions per year in a poor country 10,000 miles away?