June 2025; The Cleft Month
Category Weccare foundation
Beyond the Stigma: A Cleft’s Journey
Born into a Challenging World In the small Cameroonian village of Bafia, a young boy named Amang Stefan came into the world on June 8, 2008. He faced a unique challenge from birth: a cleft lip. This physical difference would…
WECCARE Foundation receives an august visitor: MAGRABI ICO Cameroon Eye Institute
It was with great joy that WECCARE Foundation received the visit of one of its partners MAGRABI ICO Institute Cameroon. The visit was quite a pleasurable one in which both parties had ample time to exchange on the different advancements…
Building Hope: Weccare Foundation and SmileTrain Raise Awareness on Cleft Lip and Palate in Yaounde
On June 4th, 2024, the Weccare Foundation, in collaboration with the US-based NGO SmileTrain, organized an outreach program at the Acha Health Clinic in Yaounde. This initiative falls under Weccare’s Comprehensive Cleft Care Project (CCCP) and aims to raise awareness…
Weccare Staff Sets Example: Championing Community Health & Civic Duty
The staff of the WECCARE Foundation join the government in the promotion of health as advocated by the Head of State: The launch of the National Vitamin A Vaccination and Deworming Campaign in Simbock, Yaoundé. The staff of the WECCARE…
Nursing Care for Patients with cleft lip and/or palate
Comprehensive nursing care for cleft lip patients, ensuring optimal outcomes.
WECCARE’s MAPC Project: Partnering for Healthier Incarceration with Hadassah Medical Center
WECCARE Foundation is dedicated to improving the well-being of all individuals, and that includes those within the prison system. Our Medical Assistance to Prison Communities (MAPC) Project tackles a critical need: ensuring access to essential medical care for inmates.Many inmates…
An Update concerning our Comprehensive Cleft Care Project
The general public is hereby informed that WECCARE Foundation Comprehensive Cleft Care Project (CCCP) sponsored by SmileTrain USA and supported by SYNERGIES AFRICAINES in collaboration with MINSANTE, will as from the month of January 2024 organize Comprehensive Cleft Clinics…
From Des Moines to Yaoundé: Hope and Healing’s Transatlantic Journey
In 2019, Dr. PatrickOben of MercyOne and Mandy Corliss, Director of Mercy Experience, joined forcesto strengthen ties between MercyOne and the Weccare Foundation. Mandy becameacquainted with the foundation’s pivotal role in performing transformative surgerieson children with cleft conditions under the…
Tsaloyi Nuance’s Smile: A Mother’s Hope
"I remember the day my son Tsaloyi Nuance was born as if it were yesterday. I was so happy to welcome him into the world, but my joy quickly turned to worry when I saw that he had a cleft lip. I knew that the cost of surgery would be prohibitive. We were poor and we could barely afford to feed ourselves, let alone our son. I was worried about Tsaloyi's future. Would he be able to eat and speak normally? Would he be able to live a normal life?"