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Amman, Jordan. April 2006
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An Iraqi mother waits with her child to see a doctor with Operation Smile in Amman, Jordan on Saturday, April 22, 2006. An Operation Smile team of international medical volunteers is in Amman, Jordan, at Jameel Tatonji Hospital from April 20-29 providing free medical evaluations and reconstructive surgery to Iraqi children suffering with facial deformities. This marks the third mission during which Operation Smile medical volunteers have worked in Amman to treat children from Iraq. Operation Smile Jordan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the Jordanian Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has organized missions providing surgeries to more than 700 Jordanian and Iraqi children since 2000. Operation Smile of Norfolk, VA has provided free facial reconstructive surgery to children and young adults in 30 countries the last 24 years.