There Operation Smile Italia ETS Foundation – committed to providing treatment and healthcare to people with facial malformations in low- and middle-income countries – promotes the “Merry Smiles” campaignactive until January 6, 2025with an appeal to make a solidarity choice for Christmas 2024.
“Merry Smiles” offers a catalog of quality gift ideas but above all with a real impact on the lives of thousands of patients in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa: the funds raised through the Campaign, in fact, will to finance Operation Smile medical programs in low- and middle-income countries (in which it is active with its Treatment Centers) and to give back to many children and adults the hope of a healthy life.
«With the “Merry Smiles” Campaign, the Operation Smile Italia ETS Foundation wants to convey, on the occasion of Christmas, the power of a simple gesture capable of contributing in a concrete way to supporting the Organization’s medical programs in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa . – he states Marcella BiancoGeneral Director of the Operation Smile Italia ETS Foundation – Giving a child the opportunity to receive the medical care he needs is a gift of inestimable value also for those who donate: our commitment is aimed at guaranteeing everyone access to care free, safe and quality, anywhere in the world.”
On the Operation Smile Italia ETS Foundation website (www.operationsmile.it), you can find the gift ideas for Christmas 2024. Those who want to honor tradition can choose the Classic Panettone with raisins and candied fruit, for those with a sweet tooth the ideal gift is the Mini Home Chocolate Boules with hazelnut cream or the Big Advent Calendar Tin with tasty pralines. Those who love the warmth and welcome of a decorated environment will certainly appreciate Christmas Lights, a delightful glass jar with fairy lights to be used even after the holidays.
Finally, the recipe book At the table with chocolate, a little sweet, a little salty by Gloria Brolatti, journalist and Ambassador of the Operation Smile Italia Foundation, which collects 40 sweet and savory dishes made with chocolate. The author donated her books to the Foundation to help support the activities of the Operation Smile Treatment and Training Center in Milan at the ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo.
