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TIL of Dr. Sharad Dicksheet; he founded The India Project in 1968. Until his death in 2011 he traveled to India each year to perform surgeries on children. To date, The India Project has performed more than 98,000 free corrective surgeries for children and infants who suffer from facial deformities.


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