Mr Gilles Herard, Jr recognized for donating to Smile Train
November 9, 2011 -- Mr Gilles Herard, President & CEO of Capital Corp, was given special recognition for his generous donation to Smile Train, an organization whose mission it is to provide a child born with a cleft palate the same opportunities in life as a child born without.
Smile Train: provides free cleft surgery to hundreds of thousands of poor children in developing countries; trains doctors and medical professionals in over 80 countries; and treats the “whole child” with comprehensive, total rehabilitative care including: speech therapy, general dentistry and orthodontics.
Unlike many charities that do many different things, Smile Train's mission is focused on solving a single problem: cleft lip and cleft palate. Clefts are a major problem in developing countries where there are millions of children who are suffering with unrepaired clefts. Most cannot eat or speak properly, aren't allowed to attend school or hold a job, and face very difficult lives filled with shame and isolation, pain and heartache. Their clefts usually go untreated because they are poor – too poor to pay for a simple surgery that has been around for decades.
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November 9, 2011 -- Mr Gilles Herard, President & CEO of Capital Corp, was given special recognition for his generous donation to Smile Train, an organization whose mission it is to provide a child born with a cleft palate the same opportunities in life as a child born without.
