Restoring dignity and confidence
Opération Sourire
GOAL
Back
For 20 years, surgical teams have been literally putting the smile back on the faces of thousands of men, women and children disfigured by war, illness, deformity and cultural practices. In each case, patients undergo one or more operations to repair facial damage or give them back the use of their limbs.
Beyond the physical repair by surgery, patients are given the chance to return to a normal life among families and communities, allowing them to again find their way in society, go to school, make friends, get a job and start a family.
The campaign also trains local surgeons to handle cases on their own.
As the exclusive partner of Opération Sourire, the L’Oréal Foundation funded more than 500 surgical operations in 2009, during 15 missions in 7 countries : Benin, Cambodia, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Niger and Chad.
Since 2010, L’Oréal subsidiaries in Japan and Germany also fund several missions each year in Cambodia and Bangladesh.
To know more, visit : http://www.medecinsdumonde.org/fr/A-l-international/Operation-sourire
COPYRIGHT: Catherine Henriette
Beyond the physical repair by surgery, patients are given the chance to return to a normal life among families and communities, allowing them to again find their way in society, go to school, make friends, get a job and start a family.
The campaign also trains local surgeons to handle cases on their own.
As the exclusive partner of Opération Sourire, the L’Oréal Foundation funded more than 500 surgical operations in 2009, during 15 missions in 7 countries : Benin, Cambodia, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Niger and Chad.
Since 2010, L’Oréal subsidiaries in Japan and Germany also fund several missions each year in Cambodia and Bangladesh.
To know more, visit : http://www.medecinsdumonde.org/fr/A-l-international/Operation-sourire
COPYRIGHT: Catherine Henriette
