By Jorge Cortes
Operation Smile is an organization that dedicates its time and effort to helping children with a cleft pallet and lip which makes them unable to eat, talk and smile properly and who can’t afford to pay an operation to fix their malformation. Operation Smile raises funds and awareness about these children in order to get medical volunteers capable of applying this surgery and the money raised is used to pay the operations of these children.
On the 24th of December, the ADNIC Yas Run took place for runners of all ages and capabilities, having races of 1, 3 and 10 km long, divided into categories according to age, this event helped raise funds for Operation Smile, who was at the event organizing activities for children and selling their merchandise, raising funds for those children as well, as accepting donations from enthusiastic runners.
Operation Smile is an organization that dedicates its time and effort to helping children with a cleft pallet and lip which makes them unable to eat, talk and smile properly and who can’t afford to pay an operation to fix their malformation. Operation Smile raises funds and awareness about these children in order to get medical volunteers capable of applying this surgery and the money raised is used to pay the operations of these children.
On the 24th of December, the ADNIC Yas Run took place for runners of all ages and capabilities, having races of 1, 3 and 10 km long, divided into categories according to age, this event helped raise funds for Operation Smile, who was at the event organizing activities for children and selling their merchandise, raising funds for those children as well, as accepting donations from enthusiastic runners.