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Will is heading to India for Operation Smile

Guwahati, India: Nov. 30–Dec. 20, 2010

More than 80 volunteers from around the world will join their counterparts in India with a goal to provide surgeries for 500 children at the Mahendra Mohan Choudhary Hospital.


In a few short weeks, our expanded mission to Guwahati, India, will be underway. To meet the unprecedented need in this area, Operation Smile will be sending two medical teams who will work back-to-back from November 30 through December 20.

More than 80 volunteers from around the world will join their counterparts in India with a goal to provide surgeries for 500 children at the Mahendra Mohan Choudhary Hospital. Operation Smile has been working in Guwahati since 2009 and to date has provided free cleft lip or cleft palate surgeries for nearly 2,000 patients.

During this mission, a campaign called “Smile for NUK” will be underway and includes products designed for feeding that have been donated to the medical mission. We know that hundreds of children are waiting and we are anxious to join the teams on site and provide the surgeries they really need.

- Allison Bradshaw and Kia Guarino, Program Coordinators, Operation Smile