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Community InitiativesKidejapa Surgical MissionsKidejapa, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization, provides plastic and reconstructive surgery services to children of developing countries. Kidejapa's annual trips to Ecuador make a difference to the many childrens' lives these surgical teams touch. On Kidejapa's annual missions, the surgical teams correct birth defects like cleft lip and palate, abnormal facial features, children born without ears, hands with fused fingers, large birthmarks and scarring from burns. 
In rural villages, a child with a birth defect is often viewed by the locals as a demon...as a body inhabited by an evil spirit. They are ostracized and not allowed to marry or have children of their own. The need for the services of these surgical teams is great. Since 1998, Dr. Sheldon Lincenberg has organized surgical teams and travelled to Ecuador each summer. The teams take all personnel, instruments, supplies, bandages and medications with them. The teams work hard - operating 12 to 16 hours per day - in less than ideal surgical facilities and are able to help about 100 children on each trip. The volunteer surgical teams (surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, medical assistants and technicians) are not paid for their work. They donate their time for this humanitarian effort. To the surgical teams, the reward comes in knowing these children's lives are forever changed. As a non-profit organization, Kidejapa's surgical missions are funded entirely through donations. Contributions to Kidejapa's surgical missions are tax-deductible. |
Office Phone(770) 730-8222 
The two sides of this little girl's face are not the same size because they have grown at different speeds. The right side has a gap in the bone that goes from the right eye down to the corner of the mouth. To resolve this, Kidejapa surgeons enlarged the right side of the face by moving the eye upward and putting more bone into the cheek. |
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