Children in CRP
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Mai Van Phuoc, 15 years old boy whose right leg deformed due to a disease which cause his leg muscle got weak and contracted. After surgery, Phuoc need rehabilitation to strengthen the muscle.
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Pham thi Thuy Van, 10 years old girl who was born normal until 7 years old, Van’s left shoulder gradually deformed due to a disease called fibrosis of delta muscle.
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| | Case 1 : Dang thi Kieu – 2 years old. Parents are farmer, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: $2,000 | | | | Case 2 : Tran Xuan Vy – 12 years old. Father is laborer, mother is farmer combined monthly income 32USD, born with heart defect, had surgery in 2005 but not completely repair the defect. Condition worsen with time
• Cost for surgery: $5,000
| | | | Case 3 : Hoang Gia Khanh – 2 years old. Both parents are laborers with combined monthly income 30USD, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: $2,000
| | | | Case 4 : Do Thi Lot – 13 years old. Both parents are laborers with combined monthly income 30USD, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: $3,000
| | | | Case 5 : Huynh Thanh Bao Ngoc– 2 years old. Both parents are laborers with combined monthly income 30USD, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: $2,000
| | | | Case 6 : Tran Thi Xe Bich – 2 years old. Both parents are farmers with unstable monthly income 40USD, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: $2,250
| | | | Case 7 : Phan Quang Vu - 4 years old. Both parents are farmers with combined monthly income 32USD, born with heart defect
• Cost for surgery: 2,250USD
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Le Thi Be, 14 years old girl whose right leg deformed and curved due to polio when Be was 4 months old.
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Corrective Surgery Program
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In 1998, ACWP first developed the Corrective Surgery Program (CSP), in partnership with Hue Medical School and General Hospital, to help the poor, disabled children in Central Vietnam. Most often, the children registered for these services are victims of childhood illnesses which have left these children with reduced or limited mobility. Other children also served under CSP are those born with birth defects such as cleft palate, cleft lip, club foot, deformity of arms/legs, conditions which are medically correctable, but financially unobtainanble for most parents. The cost of surgery, treatment, and hospitalization deters most parents.
As a result, many of these children are stigmatized, socially isolated, and emotionally withdrawn due to their physical disabilities. CSP has provided these children with the opportunity to receive corrective treatment for their physical misshapenness. The objective is to help the child to overcome their physical handicap and gives them a chance for normalcy. SolutionACWP’s Corrective Surgery Program seeks individual sponsorships from donors for each child enrolled in this program. A donation of $200 USD will typically help one child, depends on non-complexity of situation which, includes one surgery and some financial assistance for the child and his/her family. The additional financial assistance plays a critical role in the success of the child's treatment as it supplements the family's lost wages during the child's hospitalization, as well as covering costs of food, travel, and dietary supplements which the child needs during and post surgery.
Following the corrective surgery, ACWP medical staff continues to monitor the overall condition of the child, and provides a report and recommendations to ACWP Board and its sponsor for further assistance, if needed. Typical past cases which required further support have included lodging, nutrition, physical therapy, counseling, education, and/or vocational training.
How You Can HelpACWP is seeking sponsorships of $200 USD for each typical corrective surgery cases. Want to Help? Click Here
Regardless whether surgery is possible, in many situations the family has incurred extreme hardships to arrive at the ACWP office seeking aid for their child. In these circumstances, the local ACWP-Vietnam staff would always reimburse to help pay travel costs to these families.
In other major types of surgeries, sponsorships can help pay for child’s meals during the hospital stay from 20 to 40 days. Families who live too far from the hospitals are also provided with additional supports and financial assistance to pay for the travel costs for multiple trips to the hospital during and after the surgery.
Join ACWP as a Sponsor to change a child’s life, one child at a time. To invest and change a child’s life, sponsor a child in CSP program
FactsTo date, ACWP has sponsored corrective surgery and rehabilitation for over 900 children in the City of Hue and its surrounding areas of Central Region and South Vietnam. Occasionally, ACWP would have brought the CSP to rural areas and provided on-site corrective surgery but only for minor and simple cases of clefts lips referred by our Doctors and medical staff during ACWP's medical out-reach trips under the Mobile Healthcare Program (MHP) in Central Region of Viet Nam. However, due to ACWP’s limited medical assistants and resources in South Viet Nam, surgery will only be arranged and performed at Hospital nearest to where the patient(s) live.
Since 2003, other international NGOs such as Operation Smile and the Smile Train have stepped up their efforts in providing corrective surgery for disadvantaged children with cleft palate and hare lips. As a result, ACWP has shifted its focus and increased funding for other congenital defects such as curved arm or leg, burns or other forms of deformity. In the coming years, ACWP plans to collaborate with other medical and international NGO groups in Vietnam and extend Corrective Surgery Program to Cambodia and other areas through out Vietnam.
Did You Know...- The majority of ACWP Corrective Surgery Progam’s funding came from the generosity of the private sponsors and ACWP fund raising events.
- $200 USD investment will cover the cost for a simple corrective surgery in most cases.
- ACWP’s Corrective Surgery Proram has transformed the lives for more than 900 disadvantaged children since 1998.
- Want to Help? Click Here
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