Goals & Results

  Objectives for Fiscal Year Beginning January 1, 2008

1. Increase clinic sites and frequency for providing routine dental care as well as medical, cleft lip and palate and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, including assisting in correction of self-esteem issues for the underprivileged orphans of areas located both nationally as well as internationally. Areas of Latin America beginning with those located in Tijuana and Tecate,Mexico; the city of David, Panama,and in the Barrio Cristo Rey, located in San Jose , Costa Rica. Additional mission work to be held in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in conjunction with Variety Children's Lifeline. Work with the Boardwalk Group and Charity Anywhere Foundation may lead to Dental clinics in El Hongo, Mexico. .

2. Continue support for the ongoing dental, maxillofacial,self-esteem psychological recovery and philanthropic foundation educational efforts located in Costa Rica, Panama, and Mexico in order to allow for the expansion of the volunteer outreach to "special needs" indigent and orphan children's population.

3. Initiate new courses and seminars to both facilitate direct participation as well as educate professionals and other persons interested in combining philanthropic family foundation wealth with hands-on volunteer service projects helping the under served population of kids and orphans.

 

4. Explore mission site needs in the area of Siem Reap, Cambodia for treatment of children with unmet needs in the area of Cleft deformities at hospitals, Jayavarman VII and Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals.

  Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2007

1. Five Site visits and four surgical clinics were accomplished in order to have a successful startup of a new Craniomaxillofacial surgical mission site located in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine at the Mechnikov and Children's First Hospital for the treatment of the impoverished orphanage children affected with the Cleft Lip and Palate deformities. Equipment donations and International fellowships were awarded to the site and it's doctors along with University affiliations for ongoing mission care on a biannual basis. Variety Children's Lifeline provided financial support for this mission initiation.

2. A new Cleft and Craniofacial surgical clinic having the added surgical expertise of Pediatric Dentisty and Flying Samaritan's Opthalmology was started for the subproject "Smiles of Tecate" located at the DIF clinic and the new Rotary Hospital in Tecate Mexico. The equipping and use of another operating room at the Rotary Hospital and the DIF Infants Clinic  began in November of 2005 with the added support of the local Rotarians. Three Cleft surgical clinics are presently operated per year in the months of November, March, and July with the surgeries being done at the Rotary Centennial Hospital Clinic , as well as the DIF infants clinic with follow ups done at the D.I.F. clinic. Construction plans are in process for the new operating rooms at the Red Cross Hospital of Tecate with equipment purchases already underway.

3. Completion of the initiation of cranio-maxillofacial surgical clinics, advancement of education regionally, and funding and provision of post-graduate educational surgical fellowships for foreign graduates of Costa Rica. Numerous doctors now residing in San Jose, Costa Rica have continued the work which was initiated there over 18 years ago at a time when there were no Maxillofacial surgeons present in the country. There are now requests for our assistance by the local clinician providers to initiate a similar program in neighboring sister country, Nicaragua, in order to afford their own mission outreach program.

4. Successful completion of cleft surgical project "Mil Sonrisas" clinics in CD.Juarez,Mexico after over 8 years clinical biannual visits, handing it's operational leadership over to a joint effort by local Rotary club Paseo del Norte, University of Alabama, and specialist surgeons from Mexico.

5. Successful completion of independent control and management of the Costa Rican mission site for the Hospital de Ninos located in San Jose, C.R. for Craniofacial and Cleft Deformity Surgery. This was completed in conjunction with providing partial educational grants for residency training in Maxillofacial and Craniofacial Surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Univ. of Texas, for one of the outstanding Pediatric General Surgeons coming from the Hospital de Ninos.

 

6. Successful completion of the project mission "Thousand Smiles" cleft surgical clinic located in Ensenada, Mexico after 20 years of executive board participation and two years of presidency. This quarterly operated surgical team working in the months of February, May, August, and November is currently operated under the direction of the Rotary Board of Directors of Thousand Smiles Foundation.  The group is gratified by the recent addition of two dental-only missions using the facility in March and October by the NorCal dental mission group started by Dr. Steve Leighy.

7. Presentations and publications nationally and internationally on the subjects of Bone Distraction Osteogenesis, TMJ Laser and Arthroscopic Surgery,Cosmetic Reconstructive Surgery, and Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Surgery, Mission Clinics and Charitable Foundation Participation.

  Self Assessment