2012
GRADE 9

CLEFT LIP & PALET

This year I have decided to try a complete new C.S.  Initially I thought I was going to continue RCCI, however then things changed. After an assembly put up by the Cleft c.s, I realised that the women who was our connection to the hospital, was also my dentist. This was a big shock however then I thought of some advantages. I googled CLEFT to get some back ground information and I relized what a serious condition it was. I was very enthusiastic to help. However at first I had no idea that i would actually join the C.S. Instead I had a discussion with my dentist. In summer 2011, I held a Garage sale, in which I was going to somehow help the Lady Ridge Way Hospital, one of the most common local hospitals in Colombo. Coincidentally being the same hospital as the the CLEFT operations are held. I raised 40,000 rupees, in which I could fund for 2 operations to cure these children. Recently I relised that, that is what I want to do. Thus I went and had a visit to the hospital with my dentist. I learnt so much about the condition. The doctors had to explain about the condition to the parents of these children suffereing from CLEFT, during this explanation I also learned alot.  After the visit I was sure that I was going to help these children. Now we are currently planning a date for two children who need the operation the most, and I shall fund for it using the money I collected last summer.
Then when school started I realized that it would only make sense for me to join CLEFT, as i already new so much about the condition. However I am still not going to make these two operations I do part of school or involve the C.S group, as they are working to a different level. Instead im going to go to the C.S and be happy about the two children I saved.