by Rachel Winer | Mar 4, 2014 | Stories
Partners in African Cleft Training (PACT) hosted a Training Workshop focused Cleft Anaesthesia from September 24 to October 5, 2013 at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Trainers, from Nigeria and Seattle, assisted the eight participants, from Ghana,...
by Rachel Winer | May 17, 2013 | Stories
Ethiopia In 2012, 185 patients visited the speech therapy unit at Yekatit 12 Hospital in Addis Ababa and were provided with an assessment. From these patients, 38 received ongoing speech therapy training over the course of 517 sessions. Mesay Gebrehanna returned...
by Rachel Winer | May 1, 2013 | News
Transforming Faces, as well as 20 of our partners from 7 projects, will be attending the 12th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies from May 5 – 10, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. Convening every four years at locations around...
by Rachel Winer | Apr 30, 2013 | News
We are proud to announce that our 2012 Annual Report is now available. Esteban Lasso, Executive Director of Transforming Faces, reflects on our achievements in 2012. In 2012, Transforming Faces reached a milestone. Since 1999, we have transformed the lives of 10,430...
by Rachel Winer | Jan 22, 2013 | Stories
In Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia, our Partners in African Cleft Training (PACT) project supports local surgeons and specialists in the development and delivery of advanced training programs in plastic surgery, anaesthetic nursing and speech therapy. In November 2012,...