they will need to be anesthetized. Patients and their mothers gather in the waiting room. Depending on the schedule, a volunteer takes the patient for pre-op preparation. They are changed from their clothes into surgical ones and subsequently taken to a pre-op room. This area is called "CLS", meaning Child Life Support. Volunteers and psychologists are there to play with the children and help them be less scared. This area is also meant for volunteers to teach patients how to inhale anesthesia once they are in the surgery room. To do this, among the toys, there are the anesthesia masks. Usually, children spend 1 hour in this area. Then, when everything inside is ready, a nurse comes and takes the child to the surgery room. Once there, the surgery takes approximately 45 minutes. When it is finished, the patient is moved to a post-op room until doctors are sure the kid is stable. Then, the patient is taken to an assigned hospitalization room, where family can take care. Similarly, a nurse comes in to every room to administrate medication and juice to each patient. Finally, next morning, these patients leave and the new ones arrive. A week after the surgery, the kid needs to be taken to the local foundation installations to a complete post-op control. Similarly, they will need to continue with language therapy to develop their speaking skills. World Care Program Patients with conditions too serious to treat in their own countries can become World Care patients and come to the United States. On a case by case basis, Operation Smile will bring severe craniofacial cases to Norfolk, Virginia, and all around the U.S. when mission conditions are inappropriate for the severity of the case. As of June 2007, approximately 200 world care patients had been treated. Foundations Operation Smile has in-country global foundations that raise money and awareness to support its programs. Mission teams are hosted by international foundations that are responsible for in-country logistics, fund raising and mission awareness. Through partnerships with the American Heart Association, as well as with medical and teaching institutions, healthcare professionals from developing countries receive evidence-based education and hands-on training and mentoring. Operation smile also has sponsored conferences, seminar workshops, rotation programs, visiting professorships, and short and long term fellowships. To aid countries in becoming self-sufficient at caring for cleft patients, beginning in early 2007 the organization planned to open comprehensive