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deadline: 5-22-2008
goal: 7,500
 

Help a Child Smile

Target: Children Needing Smiles
Sponsored by: Operation Smile

For more than 25 years, Operation Smile has been helping children around the world afflicted with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. A child born with a facial deformity is mocked and ridiculed. Eating and speaking are difficult. These children often end up totally dependent on their families who may even shut them away, believing they are cursed. Children who grow up with unrepaired cleft lips and cleft palates have difficulty developing social skills or leading productive lives.

Since 1982, Operation Smile's volunteer medical teams have treated more that 115,000 children providing free surgery, medical care and follow up treatment. Now they are going to Madagascar. This is the organization's second medical mission to this country and we are asking that people send messages of hope to the children who will be receiving the corrective surgery. These children are now ostracized and objects of ridicule, but they will soon be able to smile without fear. Won't you help encourage them to smile? Send a message of hope.

  
THE MESSAGE

Dear [Child],

I send you a message of hope - for a new smile, a new day, a new life. I'm so happy for you!

[Your Comment]

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]  

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# 250:
6:55 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Poland
# 249:
6:50 am PDT, Apr 17, Christine Coleman, New Jersey
# 248:
6:46 am PDT, Apr 17, Jill Garofalo, Texas
# 247:
6:46 am PDT, Apr 17, Crystal Smith, Louisiana
# 246:
6:45 am PDT, Apr 17, Kristin Jacobson, Texas
# 245:
6:43 am PDT, Apr 17, Louise Bristow, New York
# 244:
6:39 am PDT, Apr 17, Tamarra Love, Illinois
# 243:
6:36 am PDT, Apr 17, Ewa Crowe, Illinois
# 242:
6:36 am PDT, Apr 17, Shara Cain, Alabama
the importance of a smile is very much needed for children !
# 241:
6:18 am PDT, Apr 17, William Richard, Maine
# 240:
6:15 am PDT, Apr 17, Monia Cassarà, Italy
# 239:
6:03 am PDT, Apr 17, Ryan Billig, Minnesota
# 238:
5:56 am PDT, Apr 17, Kathy Brown, Oklahoma
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5:47 am PDT, Apr 17, Ivy SK, India
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5:47 am PDT, Apr 17, Diana Lungu, Romania
# 235:
5:41 am PDT, Apr 17, Barbara Whelan, United Kingdom
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5:29 am PDT, Apr 17, Annie Brock, Colorado
# 233:
5:28 am PDT, Apr 17, Dawee Van, Michigan
# 232:
5:24 am PDT, Apr 17, Nance Lee, New York
# 231:
5:09 am PDT, Apr 17, Ann Simpson, West Virginia
# 230:
4:55 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, France
# 229:
4:50 am PDT, Apr 17, Kim Wilton, Michigan
# 228:
4:48 am PDT, Apr 17, Kenneth Fort, Minnesota
Helping these children makes a lot more sense than waging war on them...
# 227:
4:38 am PDT, Apr 17, Dora Kassis, Greece
# 226:
4:22 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Oregon
Let's help these children not to be ostracized.
# 225:
4:18 am PDT, Apr 17, Marjolein Bruinen, Latvia
# 224:
3:57 am PDT, Apr 17, Cindy Bushway, Florida
# 223:
3:49 am PDT, Apr 17, Linda Dazey, Missouri
# 222:
3:28 am PDT, Apr 17, Ana Marina Santos, Portugal
# 221:
3:21 am PDT, Apr 17, Rhonda Lawford, Illinois
# 220:
3:20 am PDT, Apr 17, Carol Fedor, Pennsylvania
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2:57 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Luxembourg
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2:38 am PDT, Apr 17, Katherine Cadury, Switzerland
# 217:
2:33 am PDT, Apr 17, Melissa Brinksneader, Indiana
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2:25 am PDT, Apr 17, Alison Jones, United Kingdom
# 215:
2:24 am PDT, Apr 17, Nicholas Davis, Canada
# 214:
2:24 am PDT, Apr 17, ROBERT STREBECK, Texas
# 213:
2:06 am PDT, Apr 17, Laird D b, United Kingdom
a smile a day keep the doctor away
# 212:
2:02 am PDT, Apr 17, Rosemary Graf, Massachusetts
Let's give every child a better chance in life with good medicine.
# 211:
2:01 am PDT, Apr 17, Sanjoy Banerjee, India
My best wishes go with all of you.Your trials will help you teach others the meaning of compassion and thus heal the world
# 210:
1:40 am PDT, Apr 17, Timothy Bruck, Ohio
# 209:
1:30 am PDT, Apr 17, Lisa Couts, California
# 208:
1:16 am PDT, Apr 17, Margaret Patrick, United Kingdom
# 207:
1:16 am PDT, Apr 17, Fabio Roccaforte, Italy
# 206:
1:08 am PDT, Apr 17, Jennifer Cribbs, Ohio
# 205:
12:59 am PDT, Apr 17, Maria Aicardi, California
# 204:
12:48 am PDT, Apr 17, Terri VanKuipers, Canada
# 203:
12:36 am PDT, Apr 17, William Rees Davis, New York
Cleft Palates can be healed and should be healed. Surely some of the billions of dollars spent on the imperialistic and immoral occupation of Iraq would be better spent helping these children.
# 202:
12:28 am PDT, Apr 17, Sherry Gong, California
# 201:
12:22 am PDT, Apr 17, Aurora Jorio, Italy
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