by Rachel Winer | Apr 21, 2016 | News
Every day, Transforming Faces is working to ensure that children born with cleft lip and palate in developing countries have access to cleft care services. An important component of our comprehensive approach is to build long-term, sustainable solutions in our program...
by Rachel Winer | Jul 23, 2015 | Stories
8-month old Herbert Odartey-Lamptey was born with a cleft lip and palate in Bortianor, Accra, Ghana. He is the second child of his parents, Alfred Maptey and Joyce Tetteh. Herbert was admitted to our partner program at Korle Bu Hospital in October 2014. Since then,...
by Rachel Winer | Apr 9, 2015 | Stories
Samata Zakaria was born on May 20, 2014 to Sumaya Abdul and Zakari in northern Ghana, over 600 kilometres from the capital of Accra. Samata was fortunate to have an amazing midwife, Veronica Akumga, who provided care and support for Samata’s family after she was born...
by Rachel Winer | Jan 27, 2015 | Stories
Christiana Adubea Obuobi was born with a cleft lip and palate in March 2013 in the Volta Region of Ghana. With no prior incidence of cleft in the family’s history and limited awareness of the condition, Christiana’s parents, Grace and Edward, were extremely scared...
by Rachel Winer | Aug 28, 2014 | Stories
Josephine Yayra Obidie was admitted to our partner project in Accra, Ghana when she was a week old. Both Mabel, Josephine’s mother, and her uncle were very surprised to see that the baby had a bilateral cleft lip and palate, a condition they didn’t know...
