Our Mission & Values
Our Mission
Transforming Faces Worldwide (TFW), is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes access to treatment for cleft lip and palate and related craniofacial disorders for children and adults in developing countries.
To this end, TFW supports local capacity building, encouragement and strengthening of approved local CLP teams whose focus is on economically disadvantaged children and adults born with craniofacial disorders in the developing world.
Our Values
Transforming Faces Worldwide bases its work on four guiding values and principles:
1. Multidisciplinary Care
Cleft lip and palate is a disorder affecting millions of children and adults around the world. It affects a person’s appearance, speech, teeth, eating, hearing and their ability to develop socially. Cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial disorders can be successfully treated by a combination of surgery, dental work, speech therapy, social work and other forms of care and treatment.
TFW is committed to a multidisciplinary approach. Partner teams provide complete care to the child and family, enabling the child to be socially accepted into the community, and lead a productive and well-adjusted life.
2. Local Capacity Building and Training
Our goal is to encourage, strengthen and support local professional teams and institutions in the process of providing high-quality, long-term treatment.
To achieve this, TFW seeks out local professionals and organizations that demonstrate a desire to work as a team to provide complete care for the individual and having the potential to be self-reliant. To this end, TFW provides support for all aspects of a program, including training of local professionals.
3. Access for All People in need
All people are created equal, and all people should have the right to good quality healthcare.
To this end, TFW extends support to those who would not otherwise have access to treatment. TFW does not discriminate according to faith, ethnicity, culture, age, gender or economic status. TFW partners with teams who will provide equal access to all people in need.
4. Integrity
Respect between peoples implies trust, honesty and truthfulness. TFW is determined to listen with an open mind and communicate in full transparency on all the parameters of its own policies with project partners, alliances, volunteers, board, staff and consultants. All those involved are expected to accept a code of conduct acceptable to TFW.
