Our seventh free newsletter for Autumn / Winter 2006 / 7 is out now, contact us for a copy. If you want previous editions they are available too.

As we move into Summer of 2006, we are well on our way to achieving and indeed surpassing our goal of aiding 60 young Ethiopians.

Our Ethiopian Director Sebsibe has a number of large scale trips planned to Addis, and with our increasing know how, we are aiding more people more efficiently than ever before.

As part of our continuing aim to improve information that is publicly available about PHE, we have recently put on line our 2005 Accounts. You can find these in pdf form on our Home page.

They show a rapidly expanding and successful organisation positioning itself for the great challenges ahead, as ever, funding during our expansion is our main concern.

During 2005 we saw an incredible expansion in our capabilities. By the year's end we had embarked on five separate missions aiding a total of 55 persons.

Each party of up to fifty people is made up of between 10 and 20 young people desperate for reconstructive surgery, travelling together with their guardians. In November 2005 we ran a Noma (gangrene) trip in close cooperation with the Dutch Noma Foundation who kindly covered most of our costs.

Winter 2006 / 2007

Newsletter No 7 is now available free of charge, please contact us for a copy. We also stock a number of other interesting brochures about our work.

Obviously, the big news of 2006 was that one of Britain's most respected Actors, John Hurt, became our first patron. Click here for more on this.

Jonathan Crown visited Ethiopia in Autumn 2006 to meet twelve patients undergoing treatment at the Yekatit 12 hospital in Addis Ababa. This was just one of three missions that we organised during the Summer and Autumn months.

He also met our Operations Director Sebsebie Ayele to discuss the year ahead, and in particular to firm up plans for our major trip of the year in November which involved transporting twenty particularly badly disfigured patients, together with their guardians to Addis Ababa for facial rebuilding procedures.

This was the cumulation of months of hard work searching for suitable candidates in some of Ethiopia's remotest districts. We took them by bus on the twelve hour journey from Harar to the Ethiopian capital to receive surgery performed by visiting European expert facial surgeons affiliated to the Dutch Noma Foundation (Noma being facial gangrene, click here for more details).

This fine organisation deals solely with the difficult area of rebuilding the face, and boasts some of the finest surgeons in the world. We are fortunate indeed that they partly subsidise our work

These youngsters had their faces reconstructed, and then spent a month recuperating in hospital. Project Harar pays for all the various expenses, medical costs, transport, food and lodging, and allows a guardian to accompany each patient. Click here to see images from last year.

We are looking forward to the challenges of 2007, and expect to concentrate our efforts on increasing patient numbers further, promoting ourselves better and raising awareness of our important work.

Project Harar
Jonathan Crown
4c Park End
London NW3 2SE

T: 020 7431 1948
F: 020 7431 4472

E: info@projectharar.co.uk

To see more images of Ethiopia click here
www.jonathancrown.co.uk

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