Siam Commercial Bank supports Operation Smile Foundation to improve the health of children with cleft lips and/or palates, bringing great joy to families
Siam Commercial Bank is committed to supporting, promoting, and cultivating a high standard of living for people, communities, and society. Further to this goal, for over nine years, the Bank has focused on ensuring that children from low-income backgrounds who suffer from cleft lips and/or palates and other facial deformities have access to surgery and ongoing treatment that meets international standards.
So far the Bank has helped 313 patients. More than just improving their smiles, the efforts help boost the health and quality of life for the children and their families. Getting to a doctor quickly will improve the effectiveness of the treatment. From infancy to adulthood, a child requires continuous treatment for ten years and undergoes more than three to five surgeries.
This year, Siam Commercial Bank, represented by CSR Function First Executive Vice President Araya Phuphanich, donated one million baht to the Operation Smile Foundation, which was represented by its Chairman Yupares Nimkarn, DDS. With the ceremony taking place at Siam Commercial Bank Headquarters, the funds will be used for mobile surgery units and the purchase of medical equipment. As part of the events, SCB also organized an "SCB, Let's Do Good" activity, in which employees volunteered to create "Pun Sook" (meaning sharing happiness) plush toys to be given as encouragement to young children undergoing surgery for cleft lips and palates through various Operation Smile Foundation projects.
