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Mar 15, 2024

Cebu City Day 8 – Family Stories

Cebu City, Philippines

The stories shared by the families served during the Cebu City Rotaplast surgical trip are powerful testaments to their determination and willingness to travel great distances and overcome so many obstacle... Read More »

Mar 12, 2024

Cebu City Day 7 – Team Commitment

Cebu City, Philippines

Day 5 of surgeries is continuing to literally save smiles and change lives. You might be wondering how you bring a world-class surgical team together? Share the Rotaplast story! Our Rotaplast surgical team... Read More »

Mar 6, 2024

Cebu City Day 6 – Tidbits

Cebu City, Philippines

A Rotaplast surgical trip involves numerous components, resembling a symphony where each participant contributes to the overall harmony of the mission. Beyond the formal mission objectives, there are a cou... Read More »

Mar 5, 2024

Speech Pathologists and Dentists Working as a Team for Children with Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

Cebu City, Philippines

By Marlene Salas-Provance, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Vice Dean, Professor-A.T. Still University, Speech-Language Pathologist Photos by Dr. Mary Adrianne Dominique “Nikki” Toledo, DDM Dentists and speech pathologi... Read More »

Mar 4, 2024

Cebu City Day 5 – Gratitude

Cebu City, Philippines

In accordance with the policies of Adventist Hospital Cebu, we observed Saturday as our day off after completing the morning rounds to assess our surgery patients from day two for clearance to go home. Wit... Read More »

Mar 4, 2024

Cebu City Day 4 – The Results!

Cebu City, Philippines

This morning, we visited our first group of patients recovering from lip and palate surgeries. The transformation was incredible! The medical team, including surgeons and pediatric nurses, went from cot to... Read More »

Mar 1, 2024

Cebu City Day 3 – The Miracles Begin

Cebu City, Philippines

The day our volunteers travelled nearly 7,000 miles for and the families may have been waiting years for has finally arrived- our first day of surgeries! One more short interview was held with each parent ... Read More »

Feb 29, 2024

Cebu City Day 2 – Meeting Our Patients

Cebu City, Philippines

First team message of Day 2 “Breakfast 6 a.m., vans to hospital 7 a.m. sharp. Lots of eager patients waiting for you!” And indeed there were! Just over a hundred families made their way to Seve... Read More »

Feb 27, 2024

Day 1 in Cebu City – a Lesson in Flexibility

Cebu City, Philippines

Flexibility – the quality of easily adapting and the word of the day as we arrived at the Seventh Day Adventist Miller Hospital in Cebu City. Anticipating a day dedicated to set up and run throughs o... Read More »

Feb 6, 2024

Home sweet home

Sylhet, Bangladesh

I’m writing this from my house now.  After a little over thirty hours travel time, from Sylhet to Dhaka, Dhaka to Dubai, Dubai to Athens, and then Athens to Newark, with layovers, security checkpoin... Read More »

Feb 6, 2024

The last day

Sylhet, Bangladesh

The last day at the hospital is a clinic day, where the patients who have had procedures come back and get checked out by the doctors to see how their healing is progressing. To see the differences in the ... Read More »

Feb 2, 2024

Rotary Club of Jalalabad knows how to party…

Sylhet, Bangladesh

The Rotaplast mission team was honored by the Rotary Club of Jalalabad, with all the pomp and circumstance of the Academy awards. Many speeches were made, and presentations given, most notably honoring the... Read More »

Feb 2, 2024

“Rotaplast has made my child and our lives beautiful again…”

Sylhet, Bangladesh

When Shah Md Masum first heard about Rotaplast online a couple of years ago in Dhaka, he was very excited but also anxious. He knew the surgery would change his child’s life, but he also knew there were ... Read More »

Jan 28, 2024

More than just cleft lip and palate surgery

Sylhet, Bangladesh

While cleft lip and palate surgeries are the focus of Rotaplast, we also provide other services for patients to improve their lives. You already know we treat burn victims as well as cleft lip and palate s... Read More »

Jan 28, 2024

Volunteer spotlight – Dr. Rene Vreuls, Lead Pediatrician

Sylhet, Bangladesh

Our lead pediatrician has been doing this for some time and we’re lucky to have him. Dr. Vruels graduated from the Erasmus University and Rotterdam Medical School.  Dr. Vreuls is from the Netherland... Read More »

Jan 28, 2024

Warming hearts (and bodies) from halfway around the world

Sylhet, Bangladesh

Another part of the process of patients being cared for is the beautiful handmade quilts provided by several volunteer organizations. These quilts are given to the patients before surgery, stay with them t... Read More »

Jan 26, 2024

The Sterilizers

Sylhet, Bangladesh

One of if not the most important jobs when doing a mission to provide cost free surgery to children who wouldn’t have had it is making sure the surgeons are provided with sterilized equipment. On a R... Read More »

Jan 25, 2024

Getting down to business

Sylhet, Bangladesh

Day one of surgeries is always exciting – finally getting to do what the mission is all about is what everyone wants. It’s like waiting all season for your team to get to the big game and now i... Read More »

Jan 23, 2024

Sylhet Bangladesh 2024

Sylhet, Bangladesh

Before I say anything about the details of this amazing, life changing trip, a big thank you needs to go out to our incredible sponsors, without whom these missions would not be possible. A special thank y... Read More »

Dec 18, 2023

Rotary Partners in Action

Nagamangala, India

Our surgical trip to Nagamangala reunited Rotaplast with our longstanding partner – Rotary Bangalore North and District 3192. Rotary Bangalore North is one of the oldest Rotary clubs in India. Rotary Ban... Read More »


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Mar 15, 2024

Cebu City Day 8 – F...

Cebu City, Philippines

The stories shared by the families served during the Cebu City Rotaplast surgical trip are powerful testaments to their determination and willingness to travel great distances and overcome so many obstacle... Read More »

Mar 12, 2024

Cebu City Day 7 – T...

Cebu City, Philippines

Day 5 of surgeries is continuing to literally save smiles and change lives. You might be wondering how you bring a world-class surgical team together? Share the Rotaplast story! Our Rotaplast surgical team... Read More »