A smile from a child is packaged sunshine n

rainbows

If they can have it…..Then why cant these

kids…!!!!

SPREADING SMILES

SAISHREE HOSPITAL AUNDH, PUNE

INDIA

• Facial clefts occurs one in 600 – 800 births.

• Every year 35,000 children in India are born with facial clefts.

• There are over 10 lakh cases of untreated clefts in India.

Facial Clefts

Incomplete Cleft Lip

Facial Clefts

Complete Cleft Lip

Facial Clefts

Bilateral Cleft Lip

Facial Clefts

Cleft Palate

Facial Clefts

Complex Facial Cleft

• With no access to medical care, thesechildren are doomed to a life of suffering& torment, imprisoned by stigma ofdeformity.

• Socio-cultural beliefs further worsens the

problem.

• believed as curse or a punishment from

god.

• Some believe an evil child has taken birth.

These children are condemned to a lifetime isolation & suffering.

Taunted & teased for their disfigurement.

They cannot attend schools or hold a regular job or get married.

Many specially girls are even abandoned or killed at birth.

• Majority of clefts occur in rural India where

Poverty, Illiteracy, Misinformation are rampant.

Demographics

• 35 districts of Maharashtra has totalpopulation of 1,12,372,972 - 2011 census.

• Incidence, 1:700 live birth of cleft lip and palatein Maharashtra is in accordance with 1:600 livebirths in India.

Demographics

• Pune, one of the biggest district inMaharashtra has total area of 15,643 sq.kmcomprising of 1866 villages, 14 talukas and 25towns with a total population of 72,32,555.

PRIMARY AREAS OFTARGET

PUNE

MUMBAI

SATARA

AHMEDNAGAR

NASIK

RAIGAD

Project Details• Project launched – March 2012

• Aim - Treating the less fortunate children

born with facial deformities like cleft lip and

palate and to reintegrate these children into

mainstream society.

Mission - To establish state-of-the-art

cleft centre to treat children born with

cleft lip/ palate and other facial

deformities.

• Team work by Oral and maxillofacial surgeons, Orthodontists and Speech therapist to give best results in all the functions.

• Cleft camps conducted till date – 04

• Total patients operated under the project till date - 13

Our Team• Oral and maxillofacial Surgeons –

Dr Pushkar Waknis Dr Samrat Sabhlok

• Anaesthesiologist – Dr Trupti Pare

• Speech Therapist – Mrs Aarti Waknis

Funding Required for:

• Surgery

• Conducting screening camps

• Upgradation of instruments and equipment

• Establish state-of-the-art cleft centre

• Cleft lip & palate can be very well

corrected by a small surgical procedure

of 1-2 hours with a hospital stay of 3-5

days & costing as little as Rs.12,000 –

15,000 per surgery.

Cases

Before After

Before After

Before After

Before After

Before After

Before After

We have the power to make the difference.

You have the power to make the difference

Please give generously & help us put a smile on the childs face.

From the cleaners to the nurse to the

surgeons everyone involved in the

process is a volunteer.

• Join us in Project SPREADING SMILES.

Together we can change their life

and give them a better future.

Please donate to “Saiseva CharitableTrust, Payable at Pune”

All the donations to this project areexempted from Sec. 80 / G, IncomeTax

For further details please contact:

Dr Pushkar Waknis- 09823047888

Dr Samrat Sabhlok- 08308059830

Sai Shree Hospital251/252,Opp. Telephone Exchange,Near Parihar Chowk,Aundh, Pune 411007,Maharashtra, India.Phone : +91 - 20 - 41088600Fax : +91 - 20 - 41088609

Thank you“Help us fight to change the life of a child &

give back their smile of innocence”