Many people, friends and patients alike, often ask me why I do so much humanitarian work. Since 1996, the Face the Future™ Foundation, of which I am President, has sent dozens of surgeons and nurses around the world to treat thousands of children with facial deformities. I myself have been...
Tag: medical missions
Face the Future™ Mission To Rwanda, February 2014
Part One Two years ago, through serendipity and people knowing people, I was able to establish a humanitarian surgical mission to Kigali, Rwanda. In fact, this initial mission to Rwanda, consisting of 10 surgeons and nurses, was the 23rd mission of our Face the Future™ Foundation. Our Foundation began in...
Face the Future Foundation fundraising dinner another success!
On May 14, 2013, 80 friends and supporters of the Face the Future Foundation met for an evening of fine dining and friendship at the new Vita Sociale Ristorante in midtown Toronto. The restaurant, previously known as Centro and a Toronto landmark for fine dining for 25 years, had recently...
Face the Future Foundation Mission to Rwanda February, 2013
What an amazing surgical mission we have just had to Rwanda with the Face the Future Foundation! My Foundation was established in 1994 and to date we have had missions to Russia and Guatemala. In February I was Chef de Mission of our first major mission to Kigali. Dr. Ife...