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Sarah Scarth

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Operation Smile medical volunteers Dr Bruce Lelala (plastic surgeon), Dr Zamantungwa Khanyile (plastic surgeon trainee) and Dr Thando Dlamini (plastic surgeon observer) provide life-changing surgery to a patient.
PUBLIC HEALTH

Operation Smile brings new hope to Eastern Cape families

Operation Smile returns to Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha to offer free, life-changing cleft lip and palate surgeries for children and adults across the Eastern Cape.

  • Luke Charter
Rorisang Tolomane (3) and his delighted mother, Lebone, show the difference that Operation Smile makes in delivering free surgical interventions for children born with cleft conditions. The public can support the organisation’s fundraising efforts by collecting and donating their used plastic bottle tops, which are recycled for use in Tuffy’s black refuse bags.
RECYCLING

Brand’s award-winning drive to change lives

Tuffy's award-winning 'Tough enough to care' initiative turns collected plastic bottle tops into recycled refuse bags, funding cleft surgeries and wheelchairs through Operation Smile and the Sweethearts Foundation.

  • Staff Reporter