Our Vision
"Smiles for Africa" The vision for the future is to provide Comprehensive Cleft Care to all indigent patients with facial deformities throughout South Africa and to expand this service to the rest of Africa through education and sharing of knowledge.
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Our Mission
Our Mission is to facilitate Cleft Care for indigent children. This involves, multifaceted, multi-tiered, long term sustained treatment and rehabilitation by a team of medical and dental health care professionals. Our patients come first! Each case is a special project and we are committed to seeing it through
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"Volunteers and Donors support the efforts of the Wentworth Foundation to achieve a situation where no child has to live and suffer with the physical, mental and social repercussions of having been being born with a facial deformity that can be treated."
HOW WE CHANGE LIVES
The Wentworth Foundation is a one of its kind in South Africa and in Africa. It is a public private sector initiative and its aim and approach is to provide Comprehensive Cleft Care through teamwork and regular visits by the patients. |
Public – Private Sector Interaction
The Wentworth Foundation Clinics are a unique entity in South Africa and in Africa. It relies on the interaction between the Public and Private Sector. Volunteers receive CPD points for their participation at the Clinics.
Comprehensive Cleft Care
Patients with facial deformities often require sustained long-term treatment and rehabilitation by a team of medical and dental health care professionals from birth to early adulthood. This involves, multifaceted, multi-tiered, long term sustained treatment and rehabilitation by a team of medical and dental health care professionals:
Cleft Lip and Palate Support Group
Part of the mission of the Wentworth Foundation is to create awareness about facial deformities so that individuals and families have the necessary information to alleviate their fears and their suffering.
Advanced / Innovative Medical Technology
The Wentworth Foundation is committed to making use of advanced and innovative technology in treating and rehabilitating patients and seeks to embrace new and better treatment methods.
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Our patients come first! Each case is a special project and we are committed to seeing it through!