Sponsor: 
Venice-Nokomis Rotary Club
       Host:  
Tarapoto, Peru Rotary Club
Location: Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru
Budget: $100,000                         
Datess: November 8-15, 2025    
Team: 12 Volunteers               

This grant will provide children with hope and healing by developing a sustainable,fully-staffed multi-disciplinary cleft lip and palate clinic. The clinic will not only perform the initial surgery on each child, but continue follow-up care and services, which may include additional surgery, speech therapy, nutritionist, dentist, social worker,psychologist, and orthodontist specialties. It will provide supplies for advanced (orthognathic) surgery as well as an anesthesia monitor for the in-country team.

The proposed activity is to provide a professional Vocational Training Team. The team, (composed of volunteer U.S. medical personnel recruited by AdventHealth Sharing Smiles and local medical professionals) will screen patients and perform cleft lip and/or palate surgeries on up to 30 children, while training in-country professionals to continue treatment throughout the year.

We will work in partnership with the Secretary of Health at Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, a public hospital, under the direction of Dr. Jacqueline Lindsay Castaneda Cardenas.

The vocational training team will help develop each of the disciplines that are required in a cleft lip and palate clinic. The disciplines include plastic surgery, speech therapy, orthodontics, orthognathic (jaw) surgery, pediatric anesthesiology, pediatric recovery room nursing and operating room nursing. We will work with the local medical team.