Project Harar continue to deliver life changing access to surgery for infants and children in rural areas of Ethiopia, who are impacted by cleft lip or palate. Read about our latest programme here. This programme was in Project Harar's birth place, Harar, in the Oromia region.

Read about how you can support Project Harar through your online purchases.

Project Harar is excited to announce that we have been selected to feature as part of Advent of Change’s 2021 charity network, featuring on Christmas products stocked in John Lewis and Waitrose.

Read about our September awareness workshop, which included the return of past patients, who spoke about how their lives had changed since accessing Project Harar's services.

We caught up with Barnaby Hitchcock—fitness coach and founder of fitness and life style brand B FIT, who is participating in the Brighton Marathon to raise support for Project Harar. Barnaby gave us some top tips for aspiring marathon runners as well us his inspiration behind B Fit.

On the 19th September we had 19 amazing individuals take part in the London to Brighton cycle ride to raise vital funds for our work in Ethiopia, the team have smashed through their £10,000 — an amazing result!

Read about our work in August 2021, a total of 90 infants and children were able to receive treatment for cleft lip and palate from across the Oromia region.

We are delighted to announce we have been selected as finalists in the Global Giving photo contest 2021!

With your help, we have hit our target of raising £20,000 in our Summer Matched Funding Campaign via the Big Give! Thank you to everyone who has helped us achieve this by donating and taking the time to share our campaign - we couldn't have done it without you.

Our summer newsletter is here! Read about our summer matched funding campaign, our new Patron Lemn Sissay and cheer on our challenge team

We met 5 year old Negalem during our 2020 Complex Surgical Programme. She was unable to receive treatment in Ethiopia, but over the course of 18 months we were able to arrange specialist treatment overseas as a result of international collaboration

We are beyond excited to announce that Lemn Sissay has accepted the role of charity Patron alongside Anwen Hurt. Lemn Sissay OBE is a BAFTA nominated award winning writer, international poet, performer, playwright, artist and broadcaster – welcome to Project Harar Lemn!

During our 2020 Complex Surgical Programme in collaboration with Yekatit-12 Government Hospital, Videographer, Amy Sargeant made a series of short films for us, capturing the daily rituals of people who had came to access services from Project Harar

Meet our top fundraisers!

Read the most recent updates of how our speech therapy programme has evolved during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Every cleft surgery around the world involves a journey, each journey unique, emotional and perhaps with some hurdles to pass through. In countries like Ethiopia, where there are already barriers to some specialist healthcare the emotional and geographical journey for a cleft surgery can be especially challenging. Please consider supporting smile journey and providing access to life changing surgery for a child with a cleft lip or palate.

During our 2020 Complex Surgical Programme in collaboration with Yekatit-12 Government Hospital, Videographer, Amy Sargeant made a series of short films for us, capturing the daily rituals of people who had came to access services from Project Harar

During our 2020 Complex Surgical Programme in collaboration with Yekatit-12 Government Hospital, Videographer, Amy Sargeant made a series of short films for us, capturing the daily rituals of people who had came to access services from Project Harar

A film about families who had travelled from remote areas of Ethiopia to access treatment for cleft lip and palate. This is our first ever film about our cleft programme, filmed in February 2020

Run the London Marathon for Project Harar! This year the marathon is virtual, so you can complete the 26.2 miles wherever you are in the world in whatever time!