Stichting Interplast Holl (Stichting Interplast Holland)

Stichting Interplast Holland is a charitable and humanitarian organisation which provides reconstructive surgery in developing countries for children and young adults with cleft lips and burn-related deformities. Every year a number of teams of experienced Dutch reconstructive plastic surgeons, operating theatre assistants, anaesthetists and anaesthetists assistants are sent out on missions. The basis for this worldwide plastic surgery teamwork was laid at Stanford University in California where Interplast USA was founded in 1969. Interplast organisations were also founded in Europe, for instance in Germany and Italy. Interplast Holland began in 1991 and is at the moment active in Uganda, Yemen, Nigeria, Rwanda and Indonesia. In the nineteen nineties teams were sent to Vietnam, India and Pakistan among other countries.