Our Patron, Lady Anwen Hurt.

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Our founder, Jonathan Crown recently spoke at Cardinal Langley School in Rochdale about Project Harar.

We have provided access to treatment for more than 8,000 patients with cleft and complex facial disfigurements since we were founded in 2001. Read more about the impact of our work.

Read about complex facial disfigurements and how it effects people in rural areas of Ethiopia.

The traditional Ethiopian diet — although products range from region to region — is rich in nutrients, however, in rural areas there are often environmental, social and economic factors, that cause food insecurity. Read more here.

Every year we aim to treat around 50 complex cases of facial disfigurement in Ethiopia. Read about our 2018 complex mission.

Nutrition is an important part of our cleft and complex work in Ethiopia. In 2017 we had our first ever nutrition mission.

Speech and language therapy is a vital component of our cleft work. Read more about what we do.

Thank you to the British Embassy Ethiopia for welcoming Project Harar to a reception for our medical team and staff.

Our 2017 festive dinner raised an incredible £90,000 for Project Harar. Read more about our night here.

An appeal presented by our former patron, the late Sir John Hurt in 2012

Take a look at our 2022 highlights, to see how your support helped to changes lives this year.

In November 2022, a team represented Project Harar in The VirtualGreat Ethiopian, raising money to provide access to cleft lip and palate surgeries in Ethiopia.

Breastfeeding has been a mother's primary source of feeding for newborns since the earliest record of human life. It is an important factor for the health, physical development, and survival of a child. However, mothers who give birth to babies with cleft lip and palate will find it difficult to breastfeed their child - read on to find out more about how Project Harar supports breastfeeding mothers..

Project Harar, collaborating with Transforming Faces, has been at the start of speech therapy consultations in Ethiopia. In 2019 the very first cohort of medical professionals who trained and graduated to provide speech and language therapy in Ethiopia.

Read about how we are using new and innovative technology to provide training around microsurgery, air-way management and other medical areas to students at Yekatit-12 Medical College, Addis Ababa.

In March 2022, South Sudanese refugees from the Gambella region with cleft lip or palate were received by Project Harar in Addis Ababa, they were provided with access to surgery and treatment. They travelled large distances and endured harsh living conditions in the refugee camps, and many children suffered of cleft. This is their story.