Lamdi and Meymuna have a lot in common. They work together as merchants, selling crops at the local market. They both have experienced abuse and discrimination from others in the market because of growths on their cheek. And they travelled together to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to receive treatment with the ...

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'Before I had surgery I thought about killing myself. Now I am concentrating on my studies. I want to be a nurse'. Yirgalem was six-years-old when she fell ill with noma. The infection began as a small black dot in the corner of her mouth and spread, in a matter of hours and days, into her cheek. She had ...

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"I am not afraid. I hope the doctors make the correction successfully - I hope they make it look nice afterwards! I am happy and looking forward to things." Ahmedin was playing outside his family home when he was attacked by a hyena. The bite wounds ripped his mouth and cheek and made a deep hole in...

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Fatuma fell ill with noma when she was only three years old. She experienced acute pain in her right cheek and high fever, but could only be treated with herbal medicines available locally as her parents could not afford to bring her to hospital. Before meeting Project Harar’s staff in 2007, Fatuma lived wi...

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Mohammed lost his nose in a farming accident when he was young. He received successful treatment from volunteer European specialists and Ethiopian surgeons who constructed a new nose in October 2006. Days after surgery in Addis Ababa he said: 'I cannot remember the last time I could go out and be treated normal...

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