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Lazaat Restaurant, Bar & Hotel
Lazaat Hotel was opened in 2004 and has become an established and successful part of the Hospitality offering in East Yorkshire. It has always been a fundamental part of the Business to endeavour to contribute to the less fortunate in both the locality and overseas. Supporting a number of charities which include: Cash for Kids, The Lighthouse Project & OPSA
We endeavour to support organisations who undertake great work and it is considered a privilege to be able to support where we can.
Midland International Aid Trust
Midland International Aid Trust was formed in 2003 and registered in 2005. It was founded by Mr. Mohammed Aslam MBE who invited Professor Abdul Rashid Gatrad OBE to become a Patron. Both Mr. Aslam who was once a bus driver and later a businessman and Professor Gatrad who is a nationally and internationally known paediatrician have worked together from 1991 when they first helped the plight of people in Bosnia and Kosovo. Their work is local, national and international. Locally they support and work with the Oak tree Trust (with whom they, for example, are involved very closely with the homeless and have a project in Niger). Support is also provided to the local Rotary Club. Nationally, various other charities such as Leukaemia Trust, McMillan Nurses and Cancer Research also benefit.
The charity has its headquarters in Walsall, West Midlands (UK) and is supported by an advisory committee. Its function is fund raising and also to provide humanitarian aid and surgical operations to people around the globe. Help and support is provided to people of all cultures race and religion as evidenced by work during the Tsunami, working with the UN in Haiti, floods in Bihar (India), providing life changing operations such as cleft lip/palate in Pakistan and heart operations (‘Have a Heart’) in South Africa.
The charity flies out appropriate medical personnel, such as a heart specialist/plastic surgeons to areas of need. The plastic surgeons such as Nick Hart, Dr Amanullah Raja, Dr M Riaz, Dr Z Rafik and Dr de Giovanni (Heart specialist), do not charge for their work. Where there is an infrastructure, local eye surgeons are recruited to operate free of charge, as has happened in for example South Africa ‘Let me See’ cataract projects, and India. The Trust pays for consumables, travel and accommodation.
NL Group - Healthcare & Nursing
NL Group is proud to have supported OPSA from the very beginning to this day. The work they undertake is pivotal to thousands of children throughout the developing world being accepted as regular members of society.
From supporting with fundraising events, office space to hold trustee meetings to design, build and maintenance of the charities website, we cannot support them enough in the valuable work they do.
The Pakistani Cleft Lip and Palate Association (PCLAPA)
Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association started operations in 1996, and was officially registered in 2002 under the registration number "DO-SW-GRT(REGD)/2002-01". The Association is led by specialists in different fields, expanding its scope nationwide.
PCLAPA is a multidisciplinary team providing cleft lip and palate surgery free of cost for poor cleft lip and palate patients from all over the country along with audiology and speech therapy services.
PCLAPA carry out cleft lip and palate are correctable birth defects. Treatment of cleft begins with first few months of birth with corrective surgery, and continues in one form or another until the person reaches their later teens.
Primary surgery with the lip repair at about 3 to 4 months and palate repair 12 months. Cosmetic surgery on the nose may occur before the child attends school. A corrective rhinoplasty may be performed on the nose in the teenage years. Orthodontic surgery begins with Maxilla expansion at around 9 to 10 years followed by bone grafting. Further corrective surgery (an osteotomy) may be carried out at about 18 years.