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Ok. Um Can everyone see that? Ok. Yeah. Ok, great. Thanks for confirming guys. Um So yeah, thank you again for joining the Cleft Student Ambassador Induction. Um Today is uh just to kind of get to know you guys a little bit. Um Tell you what being a student ambassador involves um and what you can do to start organizing your events also kind of introducing you to the charity. Uh The work Cleft does and more about kind of their Cleft MDT and the different aspects, er, that are important within that because um it's a very complex MDT with multiple different specialties which a lot of people, er, don't quite fully understand the magnitude of. Um, so I think it's really important and interesting to learn about. Er, so let's just start kind of briefly talking about what is cleft lip and palate, er, clefts occur when the upper lip gum or roof of the mouth fail to join normally in utero. And it's really interesting cos we don't really know much about why they occur and this is one of the thing that things that Cleft is researching into, um it's kind of likely to be a combination of genetic environmental factors but the exact causes haven't quite been elucidated yet. And clefts can occur with other conditions and sequences and syndromes such as Pierre Robin syndrome, Cler syndrome, er and Vander W syndrome. To name a few in the UK. One in 700 babies are born with cleft lip or palate that makes it the most common craniofacial um defect in in. And the impact of a child's life is really profound, especially growing up, it can affect their speech, um their hearing and their dental development and it can also have a really significant psychological impact on the child um can lead to kind of social isolation, um bullying um and a variety of other kind of medical problems as well such as chronic ear infections. So why is it important that cleft lip and palate charities exist? Well, in the developing world, cleft patients are frequently not operated on until later in life if at all. Um And this might mean that they're malnourished because they can't feed properly, they're unable to talk well, so they can't communicate. Um and they might not be able to hear properly and they're often kind of seen as social outcasts. And that might be because they can't communicate quite as well or just simply because of the way they look that are kind of treated differently, which is really upsetting. And cleft repair is often a multistage procedure, but the initial repair is the most important. And if this is carried out poorly, this can have devastating knock on consequences because it's very difficult to kind of rerepair this um leading to kind of further difficulties down the line for these Children. So that brings us on to Cleft Charity Cleft, um the kind of slogan of Cleft is bridging the gap and this is a multifactorial kind of thing. It's bridging the physical gap. So the cleft gap um on the Children, the gap in knowledge. So we've already kind of talked about how the cause of Cleft isn't fully known, but there's a lot of other gaps in knowledge such as surgical outcomes um and further studies that are being undertaken, which we'll talk about very briefly shortly and also the gap between the rich and the poor. So the developing and the developed countries, the technologies are completely different the way in which they operate, the services which are available, uh the skills of the people. Um We want to kind of share the knowledge with the developing countries. So they are able to also perform class surgery to a high standard. So there's kind of a few charitable objectives to Cleft. Um One of this is to do with research which we've spoken about as well. So there are designated Cleft Centers across the UK um and also overseas, which is supported by Cleft, the charity. Um and they're researching into the causes and methods of treatments available primarily. So the philosophy um for the research is, as I mentioned, kind of finding out why clefts occur because I uh if a child can be born without Cleft, you could say that's better than having a child born with Cleft and having to operate. So if there's some sort of environmental factors that can be modified um further down the line, that could be something that could be done focusing on surgical outcomes. So best outcomes for patients in the short and long term collaborative working practices, which also kind of incorporates that overseas element. And further just building this knowledge base about Clefts in general. The second charitable objective is about the provision of financial assistance, support, education and practical advice to low and middle income countries as defined by the World Bank list of economies or kind of equivalent um sources. And this involves agreement agreements such as twinning agreements. So a Cleft Center in the UK can be twinned um with a center in a developing country, they can share knowledge they can visit um and really learn from one another um about the way in which they perform Cleft and how the Cleft subs can be developed in these developing countries so that they are self sufficient. And the international philosophy is kind of one of the reasons I'm really passionate about Cleft. I think it's really fantastic how Cleft go to these developing countries and work with the locals, former center. They're not kind of coming in and taking over performing lots of cleft surgery and coming home, they're really kind of trying to encourage providing multidisciplinary care in a way which is uh self-sustaining so that when they leave, they are left with a service which they can provide themselves, which I just think is fantastic. Um, they provide education and training and they're trying to work as efficiently as they can, um, financially as well. Of course, this is just a map with some of the current um centers that Cleft is working with. There are er, further ones that are being looked into. Um, but there's some in Tanzania kind of Bangladesh Afghanistan. Um And yeah, as I say, it's growing and this is just some pictures from the missions. Uh you can see there's sort of um some happy people on the left and their education. Um Mr Sad, the er, chairman and founder in the middle being taught, I think by one of the locals or being shown some sort of robot and the surgery itself on the right, sharing expertise. You can see how many people are scrubbed in and looking and all learning at the same time. And this is kind of an overview of uh the, the team. So you can see where we sit within this, um where the student ambassadors here and we're part of um many people involved in the charity and there's 14 trustees with the chairman and the vice chair and there's a lot of kind of strategic thinking that goes behind all of this. Um ok, so this kind of brings us on a bit more to the class student section. This is a picture of some of our ambassadors who could make it last year to the Cleft Away Day. Um This is the second Cleft Away Day that's been held um in a beautiful venue in um kind of near Barbin in London. And yeah, as I said, some of our students, some of us um have carried on. Um I'm there. You can see Z he's the vice lead, you can see GS. Um I think a couple of our other ambassadors have also carried on and just next to me in the middle um is Kaiser who's just graduated and is now on the trainee section. So hopefully we'll get to see more of you like this, this year in person um or sorry, next year. Um and we can, we can get a new photo together and one big change which I've made so far um As lead is the restructure, I thought it would be good to kind of have a regional system because one difficulty we faced last year is that we had a couple of really passionate students, but unfortunately, they were the only students from their university and we had a university based system. So what I thought is, well, it would work, make more sense if we had regions. So if there was just one student from one university. They could pair up with a student from another university who might not be that far away and they could hold an event together rather than kind of being limited. Um It also enables this linking between the students uh the trainees who some of them will be joining us shortly and also um the Cleft centers. So hopefully you guys can have more of a link with your Cleft Center or there's a few Cleft Center in some of them. Um and potentially go and visit at some point if that's something you're interested in or kind of work, work on some projects, potentially with the trainees. And this kind of tier system really just gets you more involved in the charity and makes you feel more supported, I think. So, hopefully this is um a kind of good thing that's come out of it. Uh So we've not got this many teams that are shown here. We've kind of paired two of them together. So we've got Scotland and Northern Ireland, North West and North East Midlands, Southwest and Southeast. Um Sorry, Southwest and um Wales London and Southeast and also our international team, which is also growing. We're primarily kind of based at Charles University Prague internationally, but we've also got some uh new students from Turkey who are joining us this year, which is really exciting. And if you know anybody from um other UNIS internationally and also of course, nationally that wants to get involved, please, uh, do drop me an email, send me a message or contact your regional lead who you'll be meeting later. Um As, as we'd love to have them involved. Uh I'd, now I'd like to kind of talk a bit about er, the central team. So, within the restructure, we've also restructured the central team, uh we used to kind of base it based on um roles, but now again, we've done the regional system to enable that linking. So you've got your regional team lead your uh trainee and then your Cleft unit. Uh So I'm gonna invite the different central team members to come and kind of introduce themselves. And I've also got a video for a couple of them that can't make it. So, firstly, my name is Zara. I'm a me fifth year medical student at UCL in London um with kind of an interest in kind of plastic surgery, but also Cleft surgery as well. Uh I've been a student ambassador for two years. I was the vice lead last year. Um and really passionate about Cleft. Um I've run some conferences, raising quite a lot of money for Cleft before and I'm also running um Valencia Marathon for Cleft in December. Um So yeah, I'll now just let z introduce herself as well. Just invites you to talk. Ok. I've just invited you to the stage there. Um Sorry. Hello? Ok. I think that works now. Hello, I'm the, I'm the vice. I'm the vice le for the student section, uh, with Clef this year. Um, I'm 1/5 year final dental student, um, at Queens in Belfast. And, and I would sort of be more interested in, um, the dental role in class treatments, like down the line when you've done the main surgeries such as the orthodontic aspect of it. That's great. Thanks. See. And also I have to figure out how to leave this. Yeah, I think I have to kind of kick you off the stage now. Um, I'll just remove you and you're also running Dublin Marathon, is it? Yes, I'm running the Dublin Marathon next Sunday. Great. Uh, one thing we did last year on the topic of running is we had a strava challenge which, um, it didn't quite get off the ground, but I think that's, there's quite a few runners within us. Um, all raising money for the class. If we can kind of get that going again, that could be something nice to do potentially with the trainees as well. That's something we can discuss later. Thanks. See, er, I'm now gonna invite, er, toy to the stage as well. Hi, I think that's what now. Um, hi, everyone. My name is Toya. I'm 1/4 year dental student at Cardiff University and I'm this year's Southwest and Wales Regional lead. Um, so I'm quite new to the Clef team but I'm just interested in sort of the dental aspect of it. Um Mainly the surgeries and how cleft can affect obviously psychological side of ones um of an individual's life. Um and how we can also help them with like a dental treatment as well. That's great. Thanks Toya. I'm now inviting GSTI to the stage. Not sure if there are some c connectivity problems, unfortunately. Ok. No worries. We'll try go in a minute. Um I'm just gonna share a quick video from AAM. Um, unfortunately, couldn't, er, join today. Um, but she sent a video in. Ok, great. Um You'll get to meet, um, your regional team leads in, er, the breakout rooms later as well. Uh For those of us who can join. So now I'd like to kind of get to know a bit more about uh you guys. So if you could just put in the chart, uh who you are, which university you're from and I know it's a bit cringe but a fun fact about yourself. Ok. I'm just gonna stop sharing my screen so I wanna read as well. Don't be shy. I know it's can be shy to be the first one. Great. Thanks Kyle. Oh, fantastic. Another runner. That's great skin in structure. Wow, it's amazing. Thanks. Olly. And four minutes. Oh, no, I'm sorry about that. It's ok. Most people fail first time or second time, whatever the attempt it was. It's very normal on the running thing as well. If people are interested in running for Cleft. Um, we can help direct you to where you find that kind of information but there's a website called Rail Buzz and you register through them. Um, and then you can get your place allocated. So even if the places for the race might be, er, sold out, you can often get a place through real Buzz. Um, and their charity, er, work with Cleft. Ok. Then I love coffee. Wow, that's really cool. We'd love to see some of your um latte art later. You're gonna have to send us some pictures, maybe do some Cleft inspired ones and kind of fundraise for us in that way. That would be great. So meds Junior Kings, I got a very cute, just give her a couple more minutes and then just keep going. Ok. I'll tell you what we'll keep going for now. Um And just so we can have a break on time. It shouldn't be too much longer on this section. So, um thank you guys for introducing yourselves. I really appreciate that and love some of your fun facts. Um Really helps to get to know you a bit more. So I'm just gonna briefly mention your role as student ambassadors. So it's kind of twofold firstly, um being fundraising, so we would ask you to fundraise. We do appreciate it. It can be quite challenging. Um but we're here to support you through that with ideas. Um Any assistance you need. Um in terms of organization, uh I should have actually really introduced Mel and Emily, um, within this Mel and Emily are fantastic and they will help you whatever you need, um, especially organizationally. Um, and if you ever need anything kind of contact us and we can contact Mel and Emily and also they'll probably be directly in contact with you. And secondly, raising awareness and in, er, increasing awareness of cleft, the charity, er, this can be through your university roles, it could be going into your old schools. Um And often this kind of the fundraising and the increasing awareness do go hand in hand. Er, we have lots of leaflets which we can send you any kind of um lanyards, um tshirts, anything you need, we can, we can help give that to you. Uh We'd also ask that your, a point of contact for anyone interested in becoming a Cleft ambassador, uh sharing the link to sign up. I'll put this on the whatsapp chat, which you'll all be added to later and encouraging maybe some non student ambassador fund to help you fundraise. So whether that's just kind of your friends, um and very occasionally there might be some uh fundraising section events to share. So if you are affiliated with any societies, uh we'd love you to share this to them as well via whatever platform that you usually use. And this is a new thing for this year. It's just a student contract a voluntary contract. It's kind of, er, linked in with the legal stuff. Um, but it just kind of gets an idea of what you're getting yourself into. It's not a, a huge role. We're not asking you to sign your law, your life away. Um, but it will just kind of help you understand a little bit more. So I will be putting this link in the whatsapp switch, you will be added to later or if you'd like to scan the QR code now that will take you to the form. Uh It's a very similar kind of lay out to when you did the sign up to be a student ambassador form for this year. And I think it's just really important to mention a little bit about professionalism without banging on about it in that you will be representing our charity and our values. And we ask that you behave and carry yourself in a manner that reflects your role and maintains craft's image. Uh I'm sure that there's not gonna be any issues, but it's just something to briefly mention. And this is a little guide on how to run an event again. I will be putting this into the whatsapp groups that you'll be added to later. Um But this year, we just ask that you register your event via this really short activity registration form. It's just more for us rather than for you. So we know what's going on. Um We often find that there's been events and kind of money somewhere and suddenly people tell us, oh, we, we managed to raise all this money, which is amazing, but we could have helped you share that as well and maybe helped you fundraise even more. And we want to brag about you. If you've done something great, we want to know, we want to, we want to celebrate you. Um So hopefully this kind of helps you talk, um talk to you through how to run an event a little bit more. And as I say, if you need advice, um or ideas, anything like that, please contact your regional team lead. Um and they can pass this on to myself or we can talk to Mel and Emily as well. Great. Um So if anyone's got any questions, if you'd like to pop that in the chat, otherwise we've got a break until 11. Uh We've actually finished a little bit early. Um So maybe just join a, a few minutes before if you want, but no pressure, if not. And Mr Sad, our um chairman and founder will be speaking a bit more about the charity um about Clefts work internationally as well. And um there should be some really nice videos as well. Uh It, it should be a great talk, Mr is a great speaker. Um and he's, he's really very, very inspirational. He's one of the founders of class surgeries. So it's, it's a real, real honor to have him here to speak to us today. Uh, and I'll keep an eye on the chat throughout. So, um, if you're, if you've got any questions throughout the break, um, we can answer those as well. Ok. Um, see you at 11.