Does Operation Restore Hope Australia have any vision for the future?
While the problem of hundreds of thousands of cleft lips and palates may seem too daunting to even tackle, Operation Restore Hope Australia has a vision of how we can create a program that may change the way early birth defects and deformities are screened and treated in the Philippines. We hope that in working with our local Filipino partners through the immunisation centres that we can create a register of birth defects in a child’s early months. With this information we can target public education in the communities to which we have made a commitment (Lapu Lapu, Paranaque and Caloocan), increase training and equipping of local surgeons as well as our teams so that no child in the future should have to begin school with a cleft lip or palate.
