Every year Jedidiah and I decide on two non profit organizations that we donate our time and money to. One of the organizations we have decided to support this year is Operation Smile. For each wedding we book this year we will donate one surgery to a child in a low resource country. As we share smiles with you on your most special day, we will also be helping to bring new smiles to children born with cleft lips and cleft palates. We hope to bring smiles to 30 children in 2015 through Operation Smile!
Here are some facts:
Two billion people, or one-fourth of the world's population, lack access to basic, low cost, life-saving surgical care.
There is a shortage of trained surgeons to handle the growing need and backlog of cleft palate cases.
Every 3 minutes, a child is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
A baby born with a cleft lip or cleft palate has twice the odds of dying before celebrating their first birthday.
It takes as few as 45 minutes to repair a cleft lip or cleft palate.