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Medical Missions for Children

MMFC has been changing the lives of children and their families all over the world for over 25 years. Get involved and learn how you can help us make a difference!

Buy a Smile

$300 pays for 1 cleft surgery. Help us make a difference.

Buy an O.R.

$1000 pays for one operating room for a day.

Fund a Trip

$70,000 fully funds one mission.

Fund Raise

Please contact us to discuss how we can partner together.

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Number of children born each year with these deformities 170,000

Children & adults awaiting this surgery 1 Million

Number of surgeries performed by MMFC 27,000

Total Volunteers 317

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What is cleft lip & palate and why is it so prevalent in certain areas?

Cleft lip and cleft palate occur when tissues in the baby’s face and mouth don’t fuse properly. Normally, the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy. But in babies with cleft lip and cleft palate, the fusion never takes place or occurs only part way, leaving an opening (cleft).

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Success Stories

Denver
Denver is a 7 year old boy who lives 4 hours away from Angeles City in province of Aurora. Denver has been bullied a lot. When he is bullied he will just return home, even if he is at school. His parents need to smash up his food so he can eat it. Then each bite is followed by milk to wash the food down. His father, Nick, is a rice farmer. They journeyed to Angeles City when Nick's sister-in-law told him about MMFC's Mission for February.
Maria
Maria Anne was a 3 month old girl with cleft lip and palate. Apparently both the birth parents have cleft deformities in their families. This year, we will fix her cleft lip and if she’s healthy and weighs at least 20lbs next year, we will fix her cleft palate. Maria Anne came back in February 2019 to have her cleft palate fixed. Along with the palate surgery, the doctors will fix some of the scarring from the cleft lip surgery.