Some 160 surgeries on facial malformations performed in southern city

Some 160 children suffering from various facial malformations were treated in the Moroccan southern city of Laayoune part of the Operation Smile, held March 27 through April 04.

Operation Smile is a private, non-profit seeking volunteer medical services organization providing reconstructive surgery and related health care to children and young adults in developing countries and the United States.

Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, was founded in 1982 by Dr. William P. Magee Jr., a plastic surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen S. Magee, a nurse and clinical social worker.

It was launched with its first mission to the Philippines in 1982. Operation Smile currently supports missions to 20 developing countries.