News

Post date: December 11, 2009

Title: Cub Scouts Surprised

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When a Provo, Utah Cub Scout pack learned about ICSF and the chance to help kids with facial deformities in poor countries, they decided that they would do whatever was necessary to scrape up enough money for one child’s surgery ($250).

Post date: December 11, 2009

Title: New ICSF Website Up and Running

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Check out ICSF’s new website at icsfoundation.org -created by Drew Bertola of Sunnyvale, CA and Melissa Ventura of Salinas, CA.

Post date: December 11, 2009

Title: Message from the President

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I would like to pay a special tribute to some often-neglected but crucial players in the ICSF story; the parents of the children we treat.

Post date: October 26, 2009

Title: In the News

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Readers Digest features Dr. Williams, ICSF, in their March 2009 edition [read article].

UPDATE: Dr. Williams is also covered in the Mexican magazine Selecciones in October of 2009.

Post date: September 28, 2009

Title: Kenyan Surgeon Trained By ICSF

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In all ICSF missions, local doctors are trained during the performing of the surgeries, with the goal that they will eventually take over the treatment of children residing in their respective countries and provide care at the same standard as that enjoyed by children in the US.

Post date: July 01, 2009

Title: Dr. Williams Meets with and Addresses U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia and Bolivian Dignitaries

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April 29th marked the dedication of the newly-completed clinic of one of ICSF’s partner organizations, Fundaccion, a Bolivian charity providing reconstructive surgery to indigent patients.

Post date: June 30, 2009

Title: ICSF Receives Joint Grant from ASPS and Smile Train

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The International Children's Surgical Foundation (ICSF), a Boise-based charity which travels to developing countries to provide free surgery for children with cleft lips and other disfigurements, was recently awarded a $15,000 joint grant from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Smile Train.

Post date: May 30, 2009

Title: ICSF Begins the New Year in the Phillipines: Completes Six Missions in the First Quarter of 2009

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In the short span of January through March, 122 children and young adults in three countries, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Mexico, received free surgery by the International Children’s Surgical Foundation.