By supporting local organisation Smile Africa, the primary school students at Cayman Prep have, for the second consecutive year, raised awareness and funds for children in Africa, who have been affected by a disfiguring disease called NOMA.
Smile Africa was created by 9-year-old Tiggi Kohl, a student at Cayman Prep, to raise funds for the charity Facing Africa, which arranges for plastic surgeons to visit Africa and treat the children who suffer from NOMA. Tiggi’s mother, Jane Wareham, is a director of Facing Africa Cayman.
Tiggi recently gave a presentation on Smile Africa to the entire Primary School, during which she explained that “the victims of NOMA are mainly children under the age of six that live in extreme poverty and suffer chronic malnutrition”. She described how Facing Africa can transform lives by talking about two African girls who have been helped by the organisation’s work.
Tiggi, with the help of her fellow students, organised a ‘civy-day’ for the primary school which raised almost $2,000 for Facing Africa.
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