Mr. Le Roux Fourie (www.lerouxfourie.co.uk)  used to only make money by doing plastic surgery in Leeds. There was news of a disease that had been killing several people in Ethiopia. He decided to do what he could to keep those infected people from dying. The poverty rate is so high that these many of these people have never even been seen by a doctor. When they get a disease they will either die from it or it will go away on its own. Nine out of ten times they will die after they are infected with Noma. The only cure for this disease is combined therapy of antibiotics and surgery.

Noma decays the skin on a person’s face. In the end stages it is hard for a person to speak or even eat. Which makes it very difficult to survive. Gangrene acts somewhat like Noma. Fourie developed a plan to help the infected people that were living in Ethiopia. Fourie and some colleagues organized a trip to Ethiopia to provide treatment to the infected people. they scheduled the trip to last for ten days and wanted to help as many sick people as they possibly could.

There were so many people suffering it became quite difficult to choose the lucky ones that would be saved. It was very hard for the doctors to see those that they did not have time to help and those where the disease was so far advanced they could not help. The surgeons ended up helping a total of 44 people. The treatment consisted of two surgeries because they had to remove and replace the dead skin. Other surgeons heard of the efforts made by this group and decided to help. They also planned their own trips to try to bring aid the people of Ethiopia.