And that’s a wrap! We worked hard this past week to serve 40 patients in the Dominican Republic, performing 20 palate repairs, 19 lip repairs, and 1 eye lid repair. The youngest patient we served was 6 months, the oldest was 10 years. On the day before the last day of surgery, 27 more patients showed up after hearing about our mission from television news coverage. Needless to say, we are making plans to return next year! In the mean time, Mending Faces donated much needed medical supplies to the local hospital including sutures, anesthesia supplies, and surgical instruments specific for cleft surgeries, totaling about $3,500. Mending Faces will continue to provide speech therapy to 9 patients over the course of year with a speech therapist in Santo Domingo.