JANE'S ADDICTION Guitarist DAVE NAVARRO Helping Kids Smile

September 25, 2014, 9 years ago

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JANE'S ADDICTION Guitarist DAVE NAVARRO Helping Kids Smile

Dave Navarro has put smiles on thousands of faces all over the world with his music, but now he’s permanently changing smiles.The Jane’s Addiction guitarist and Ink Master judge has just about raised the $24,000 needed to cover the costs of 100 operations by Operation Smile doctors for kids born with a cleft lip, cleft palate or both. Then, he just might start all over again. The cause is something that really spoke to him, reports Karen Bliss of SamaritanMag.

Navarro has a personal donation page set up on the Operation Smile web site that is currently at $22,270 (USD). Each operation costs just $240. “I’m not exactly sure how I first heard about Operation Smile. My best memory is perhaps some of the signage and some of the advertisements they’ve had the opportunity to run just caught my attention more than anything,” says Dave.

A cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip or mouth do not form properly.

“Of course, I’d heard of children — people frankly — that have had some disfiguring ailments over the years, but something just really tugged at my heartstrings when it came to seeing these kids that are, by all accounts, healthy and ready to have a normal life with the exception of a physicality that is going to be challenging for them.”

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