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英语希望的光芒 如此平凡的人，却干着不平凡的事：让希望的光芒照进绝望的心。接下来，小编给大家准备了英语希望的光芒,欢迎大家参考与借鉴。 英语希望的光芒 When plastic surgeon Geoff Williams saves a face, he also saves a life. Training with Taiwanese mentors on a medical mission in Vietnam, he was astounded by the crowd that greeted them in one village: 200 mothers waiting with their children, all with cleft lips or palates. The women mobbed him, pleading for help, as he entered the local hospital. It was as if they were in a sinking ship, Williams recalls, and we were a lifeboat passing by. Courtesy of Geoff Williams, MD Dr. Geoff Williams, with My Anh, a Vietnamese patient.The surgeons could operate on only 25 to 30 children during their three-day stay. The rest had to be turned away. It was devastating, Williams says quietly. When his plane left Vietnam, he vowed to go back. Williams never planned to become a globe-trotting volunteer surgeon. I thought Id help these children for a couple of years and get it out of my system. But that was five years ago. Williams, 53, now works full-time correcting facial deformities in 12 countries, including Mexico, Tanzania, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, and Taiwan. He has performed almost 1,000 operations, most of them since he started his International Childrens Surgical Foundation—and he has no plans to stop. His work is literally life-changing. Peruvian-born Danit Olivera, for instance, was diagnosed as an infant with facial fibrolipomatosis, a rare deformity. Danit underwent painful treatment that was ultimately ineffective. Depressed by the stares and insults, she stopped attending school and holed up at home, convinced, she now says, that shed never awake from a nightmare that had lasted my entire life. Williams told the 19-year-old he could help. Now 20, Danit is thrilled to face the world. I am a different person, she says. I am happy. Williams could be earning more than $1 million a year doing tummy tucks, face-lifts, and breast enlargements in the United States.