Electricity + Control January 2015

On top in Africa – for ‘Smile’

Wits Students' Surgical Society’s Graham Moore and Matthew Grant – for the Smile Foundation.

During 2014 Crown Publications supported the Wits Students' Surgical Society in its bid to raise funds for the Smile Foundation, a non-profit South African charity organisation that sets up resources to enable children with severe facial deformities to receive the treatment and care that they need to be able to eat, speak and develop normally. As part of the fund-raising effort by the WSSS, a group of students climbed to the top of Kiliman- jaro from 21 to 29 November. Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania, is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free- standing mountain in the world at 5 895 metres above sea level. The Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014 formed part of the Society's community outreach project and Crown Publications was ‘delighted’ to be part of the initiative, says Jenny Warwick, director. The funding will be used to support the surgeons in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to operate on as many children as possible who need reconstructive surgery, psychological support, speech therapy and dental assistance. The students, who aimed to collect R500 000, exceeded their target by over R100 000.