AMERICAN PHILANTHROPISTS ORGANIZE RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
FOR CHILDREN IN VIET NAM
Hanoi (Vietnam) and Bellevue, Washington (USA) - June 15, 2012
Greig Craft, president of the ‘Asia Injury Prevention Foundation’ in Viet Nam, and Son Michael Pham, founder and director of the charity organization ‘Kids Without Borders’ in Seattle, Washington, have organized a pilot project in Viet Nam. This project will offer groundbreaking (xxxxxxx) reconstructive surgery for young boys and girls victim to either traumatic injury or birth malformation; and in some cases related to the harmful health effects associated with Agent Orange.
With the participation of internationally renowned surgeons, the operation will begin next week at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi, Viet Nam. “Aside from the transformational life-changing nature of these surgeries, we also intend to transfer the technology and train Vietnamese surgeons, who can then expand the program—that so many children now have the chance for the semblance of a normal childhood is truly miraculous.”, says Craft.
Craft’s original motivation to pilot this project stems back to an event in 2006, relating to his involvement in the rescue of an infant abandoned at birth in the central highlands of Viet Nam. Animals devoured the ... read more ...
(Uncle) Son Michael Pham and Miracle Baby
Thien Nhan (Hanoi, May 2012)
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