Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Time: 5 pm
Location: Chan Centre for Family Health Education at the CFRI, BC Children’s Hospital (950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver)
Following the film, there will be a discussion on International Surgery led by Dr. Cindy Verchere and a dinner, available by donation. Everyone is welcome.
Please RSVP to Nathan O’Hara at nohara@cw.bc.ca
OPSEI presents a Global Health Movie Night featuring the film “Smile Pinki”
Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame. Written by TriVin Dreamer (from IMDb)
Damian J. Duffy, Executive Director
Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation
BC Children’s Hospital
University of British Columbia