Interplast (Creating Smiles and changing lives)

This programme provides the funds for West Australian medical teams to travel overseas and operate on some of the poorest children in the world born with cleft palates, a serious condition which does not allow them to eat drink speak or breathe properly, plus they also suffer from personal isolation in their community as they are so disfigured.

In the two weeks our volunteer medical teams are away they will also operate on children suffering from disfiguring burns and other remedial complaints

The pictures will touch your heart.

The History of Interplast
Interplast Australia is a partnership between the Royal College of Australasian Surgeons and The Rotary organisation. In a nutshell Rotary and the Government provide funds and the surgeons do the rest.

Over the 25 years Interplast Australia and New Zealand has been operating it has achieved these impressive statistics.
> Trained hundreds of overseas surgeons
> Sponsored 60 to continue their training in Australia
> Sent over 600 volunteers away
> Organised 400 overseas surgical programmes
> Provided 28.000 consultations
> Performed over 17000 life changing operations

Last year Interplast sent away 30 teams to 15 countries and operated on an average of 40 children per trip This incredible Interplast success story of life changing humanitarian and development work has all been achieved by Australian and New Zealand volunteers.