When she was only six months old, Nasanet received serious burn injuries from the open fire her mother used to cook. The scars impeded her movements and she could no longer turn her head or lift her chin. Ever since she was forced to live a hidden life, as her peers marginalised her and she was refused a place a...

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Halema (right), a young farmer from the remote village of Harawacha, lived for many years with a substantial ameloblastoma, a dental growth usually detected and treated early by a dentist. It was painful for Halema and she had difficulties eating and speaking. Our surgeons removed the growth and used parts of Halem...

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Kafiya Maline, aged 23 - pictured with her mother and baby son Kafiya was ten years old when noma destroyed her lips and cheek and left her with such severe lock-jaw the only way for her to eat and survive was to force liquefied foods through the small gap between her teeth. Chewing and eating normally were impossi...

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Mohamed Esu, a farmer from a mountainous region in southern Ethiopia, discovered a lump forming on his jaw six years ago, which quickly increased in size. Without a local doctor able to help and unable to afford the journey to the main cities, Mohamed only found medical care when Project Harar's outreach services...

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Jemal and Fhami became Project Harar Ethiopia’s first patients when they received surgical care in 2002  Jemal was born to a very poor family in a remote village 50kms from Harar, a historic Ethiopian town near the Somalian border. At a very young age he developed chicken pox and his immune system was b...

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