Dear all friends, family and supporters, I feel so fortunate and excited to be heading out with Project Harar following on from last years mission! I will again be nursing in the last two weeks of the mission and this year this will be based in Addis, the Capital. This will be a new location for us all and I can not wait for this challenge! It will be a pleasure to continue the care that the other awesome team members have achieved and work with the patients in the final stages. I will never forget the hugs on my arrival last year nor the happiness on seeing them all leave to return home to their families. 

The team fly out in a matter of days to start the pre operative phase for the mission and preparation is in the last stages, I will be off to join them in about 7 weeks and will be working very hard to hit my target of £1500 leading up to it! 

To all those who donate towards the mission and my target and therefore the nursing target, truly thank you so much and I'll keep you updated on facebook! For new supporters, please see my album from 2019 'Patients, people, family, friends and Buna' to get an idea of the charity, my volunteering work and the mission! 

Thank you for supporting our Volunteer Medics to join the Project Harar surgical mission to Ethiopia in February 2020. We are volunteering two weeks of our annual leave, some of us more, to be part of a medical team which will treat and care for some of the vulnerable children, men and women in Ethiopia with severe facial disfigurements. Project Harar believes that no one should feel alone because of the way they look. That's why we provide treatment for patients with facial disfigurements from some of the most remote areas of rural Ethiopia.Facial disfigurements can disproportionately affect the poorest people due to the lack of availability of treatment in rural areas, the cost of accessing treatment and lack of knowledge of what treatment is available. This is exacerbated by malnutrition, poor oral hygiene practices, and overall poor health. Those with facial disfigurements find it difficult to perform the functions that most of us take for granted eating breathing or talking