Cleft Lip & Palate Association

The City Cambodia Project – Week 6

18 Oct 2016

Week 6- Beginning 10th October at the Children’s Surgical Centre. We saw two patients at the cleft clinic on Tuesday. One patient was attending a follow-up.

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CLAPA goes East

17 Oct 2016

This week's staff blog is from Hamza, our Regional Co-ordinator for the East of England. It has been a busy summer in the East of England at CLAPA! I got to go to my very first CLAPA Family Fun Day!

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Health Professionals | Overseas | Volunteering Stories |

The City Cambodia Project – Week 5

12 Oct 2016

We spent Tuesday afternoon at CSC with Samnang for the cleft clinic. There was a mixture of initial and follow-up appointments where Samnang provided practical advice for patients and families as well as referrals for surgery.

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Health Professionals | Overseas |

The City Cambodia Project 2016

4 Oct 2016

Hello (Choum reap sor) from Cambodia! We are Tamsin and Natalie, newly qualified Speech and Language Therapists from City University, London. Together we represent The Cleft Team as part of this year’s City Cambodia Project. We will be working with children with cleft lip and palate across a number of different hospitals within the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Fundraising: Corporate | Staff Blog |

CLAPA’s Crowning Glory

4 Oct 2016

Today, we officially launched a new charity partnership with the global company, Crown Worldwide Group. This partnership means that we are Crown’s exclusive Charity of The Year and whilst some people may think it’s just about raising money this partnership is about so much more and here is how it came about.

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Fundraising: Corporate |

CLAPA Crowned in Style

4 Oct 2016

Today CLAPA is very proud to launch a very special corporate partnership with Crown Worldwide. Crown Worldwide, specialists in global logistics for the relocations, world mobility, records management and fine art industries, are located in some 60 countries and operate from 265 branches. Our partnership is with Crown’s UK and Ireland team and is a result of the company’s dedicated Corporate Social Responsibility programme. Approximately 450 staff members voted to make CLAPA their Charity of the Year.

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Calling All Experienced Specialist Cleft Nurses

29 Sep 2016

Ever wondered what it might be like to work abroad, even for a brief period? Here’s your chance… A small project is being funded in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by the British Embassy. It’s aim is to teach a range of local healthcare professionals (and therefore parents) appropriate feeding techniques for babies with unrepaired cleft lip and palates.

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Adult Stories | Your Stories |

Dan’s Story

28 Sep 2016

It’s 2005 and I’m 18 years old. Currently, I’m an elevator with my family, leaving the hospital after surgery. I’ve had little-to-no sleep and (as a result of the dentofacial osteotomy) my jaws are wired shut. Almost spontaneously, I burst out crying.

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