2024 has been a brilliant year for the Children of Sumatra. One of our most precious children managed to eventually get out of Indonesia to get an operation that he so deserved in one of the most amazing cleft specialist centres in Taiwan. We are so thankful to the Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation, Prof Lo and...
Our simple vision is to change the quality of life for children with cleft deformities. Our mission is to find children in desperate need of surgery and to provide much needed help.
In 2001, The Children of Sumatra was set up with the simple vision of helping the vast number of children who suffer from cleft lip and palate deformities living on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Since then, our charity has been providing plastic surgery, dentistry, financial support and medical care for cleft suffering children across Sumatra to develop a better quality of life for children with this deformity.
Many families in this area of the world are too poor to pay for a simple operation that can transform their child’s future. In Europe and America, we have become quite unaware of this condition as it is corrected within the first year of a child’s life, often leaving behind no trace. However in Indonesia this is not the case and the condition currently affects as many as 1 in every 500 children. Our mission has taken our team into some of the most remote jungles, mountains and isolated islands in and around Sumatra, where transport and simple infrastructure is immensely lacking. We have also funded operations and long term aftercare for some of Indonesia’s poorest urban children, several of whom have been abandoned by families and others left orphaned by a multitude of tragic circumstances.
For more information about our work or to offer support in any way please contact us.
Registered charity No. 1098761
8 The Willows, Station Road Pulborough, West Sussex, RH20 1RH UK
info@childrenofsumatra.org
Phone: [UK] +44 01798 873791 [Indonesia] +62 0852 7545 2215
