The organizers of the drive aimed to raise US$80,000 to cover expenses for operations for 32 children nationwide, bringing the total number of the programme has benefited to 106.
In 2006, with the first successful operation performed by Italian professor Roberto Decastro and his colleagues on Phung Thien Nhan, a young boy with genital deformities, inflicted after he was abandoned by his mother and attacked by wild animals.
Since 2010, a group of leading US and Italian experts has been traveling to Vietnam annually, providing free health check-ups for 388 children and conducting surgeries for 74 disadvantaged children nationwide.
This June, the group will arrive in Vietnam to carry out their sixth operation term and provide surgeries for 32 needy children.The programme also covers all expenses of travel and accommodations for families of these patients.
So far, less than the full US$80,000 needed has been collected to fund the cost of this year’s surgeries for the children and the programme needs additional support to help them.
Those wishing to donate can transfer their donation to the account of the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation and inform the fund via email chuongtrinhthiennhan@gmail.com or hotline: 0942.95.95.98.
