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Project Harar, also known under the working name Project Harar Ethiopia, is a UK registered charity working in Ethiopia to help children affected by facial disfigurements. In 2011, 873 children and young patients living in poverty and isolation were seen by a doctor through Project Harar. Project Harar works in collaboration with Ethiopian and foreign specialists plastic, oral and maxillofacial surgeons to treat children affected by a variety of conditions, to give them normal facial function and a chance to live dignified lives within their home community. == History == Project Harar was founded after Jonathan Crown, a London-based Chartered Accountant and businessman on a photography vacation, encountered two young boys with facial disfigurements, Fhami and Jemal, begging in the town of Harar, eastern Ethiopia, in 2001. Moved to do something to help, Jonathan Crown spent months organising the trip that would bring Fhami and Jemal to The Gambia, where they received highly complex surgery on board of the M/V Anastasis operated by the charity Mercy Ships.〔Sarah Harrison, "Accountant gives hope to African 'Boy Davids'", ''Ham & High Series''. 10 May 2002〕 Since that first trip, Project Harar has collaborated with other charities and the Ethiopian health system, so that patients now receive treatment within Ethiopia, carried out by Ethiopian and volunteer foreign surgeons in hospitals in the capital Addis Ababa. In 2006, the English actor John Hurt became Project Harar's first patron. In autumn 2007, Project Harar was featured in two BBC World Service programmes on noma and the treatment of patients from remote regions. In November 2007, a documentary film made by BBC Inside Out featured a group of severely affected patients from the Hararghe and Somali regions of Ethiopia who underwent treatment by a team of UK medical volunnteers, organised by the noma charity Facing Africa.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2007/11/09/yorkslincs_ethiopia_s12_w9_feature.shtml〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Harar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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