Our friends at ReSurge recently spoke with Dr. Percy Rossell Perry, the director of one of their Surgical Outreach Programs in Peru.  He shared the account of a little girl he had recently treated, Rosa, who had a touching story about returning to school without fears of being bullied by other kids after her cleft lip revision surgery. In his own words…

Six-year-old Rosa in Peru didn’t want to go to school because she was badly bullied by other students. She was born with a bilateral cleft lip, and other kids teased her because of her appearance. She had received surgery elsewhere to repair it, but the outcome of the surgery was not good and left her lip looking puffy and abnormal. The situation was very difficult for her and for her parents, who could only watch as their little girl internalized the negative things other children said about her and refused to go to class.
But then they found our ReSurge team in Lima, Peru.  We performed surgery to correct Rosa’s condition with beautiful results. Now apart from a couple of faint scars, her lip looks like any other little girl’s. Rosa attends her classes every day and makes her parents very happy.

Rosa’s parents are extremely grateful to Dr. Rossell Perry and to all who provided this unique opportunity to change their daughter’s life. We at Barco’s Nightingales Foundation, are proud to support these life-changing surgeries.
~Michael and Frida Donner