ECO has been invited to develop ties with a a patient led cleft group in India, SIRAT (Cleft Warriors).  The group has a young dynamic membership and are providing support to new families, those with clefts seeking support with...

The project partners for the Face Equality Training project met for their third face to face meeting in Valencia, Spain on 13 and 14th September 2024.  All partner countries were reprsented at the meeting which took place in a university building...

We were delighted to pilot our Speech Communication and Resilience project in Valencia, Spain, at the the start of July 2023.  Overall costs were covered by  Smile Train and  the venue  was  provided by the  Luís Alcanyís-Universitat de València Foundation...

We are delighted that despite continuing restrictions with Covid 19 we were able to deliver a training programme to members of the Ficat parent’s group in Barcelona in Saturday 15 January 2022.  The group of 17 was very motivated...

We are delighted to announce the continuation and expansion of our new online training.  Mid May we started a 5 module online specialist cleft nursing training course for nurses in Russian – targeting Russia and neighbouring countries.  More than...

We are delighted that Smile Train has awarded ECO a grant to help us develop our work in three key project areas over the coming year: training, advocacy, and awareness. With the constraints of the current global pandemic, we...

This year marks the second International Face Equality Week, spearheaded by Face Equality International.  Global charities, from Taiwan to South Africa through North and Latin America will join forces to continue campaigning for a better, fairer world for people...

A new International Media Standard on Disfigurement has been launched today by Face Equality International, the global alliance representing people with facial disfigurements.  The European Cleft Organisation is a founder member of Face Equality International.  ...

The kick-off meeting for an exciting new Erasmus+ project has just taken place at ECO’s  head office  in Rijswijk on Wednesday 20 November 2019. 17 participants attended from 9 partner countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, Romania, Estonia,...

The campaign by Face Equality International (FEI) for face equality has becomes a global movement with the first International Face Equality Week beginning on 17 May 2019. A week of awareness-raising events, media coverage and social media activity has...