Dr. Geoff Williams, a 52-year-old plastic sur-geon, lives with his parents in Idaho and drives a 16 year old Honda Civic so that he can save money to travel throughout the world helping children and adults with severe deformities.

圖中52歲的威廉斯整形外科醫師，在愛達荷州和父母同住，開已有16年車齡的本田喜美轎車，這樣他才能存錢走遍世界各國，去幫助重度畸形的兒童和成人。

As a plastic surgeon, Dr. Williams could live in a sprawling house, cruise in a snazzy sports car and wear custom-made shoes. Instead he spends his money on hundreds of strangers, half a world away. Grown men with rope-like tumors engulfing their eyes, nose, lips. Teenage girls with heads cocked permanently to one side because of burn-tightened skin. But mostly children-- with faces split up the middle like a half-open zipper.

身為整形外科醫師，威廉斯大可住毫宅，開光鮮時髦的跑車，穿名牌訂製鞋。但他把錢全花在半個世界外的陌生人身上。那些成年男子臉上有如繩索般的腫瘤吞噬了他們的眼睛、鼻子和嘴唇。年輕少女由於皮膚被火灼傷，頭永遠歪斜到一邊。但主要還是兒童，他們的臉從中裂開，有如半開的拉鏈。

Williams invests in faces.

威廉斯投資在臉上。

He worked his way through medical school, with some help from his parents. He decided to specialize in children's deformities because he found that his scalpel could heal not only disfigured children, but their brokenhearted parents. He underwent cleft palate training at the Chang Gung Memorial Hos-pital Craniofacial Center in Taiwan, considered one of the leaders in cleft surgery in the world. This birth defect affects about one in every 800 babies.

在父母資助下，他唸完醫學院，並決定專攻兒童顏面傷殘，因為他發現，他的手術刀不僅可以治癒畸形的兒童，也可以撫慰他們父母破碎的心。他在咸認為世界唇顎裂手術方面首屈一指的台灣長康醫院顱顏中心接受訓練。每800個新生兒就有一個罹患這種天生殘疾。

He then made trips to many countries including India Peru, Kenya, Bolivia, the Philippines, Mexico, Pakistan, China, Thailand, and always back to Vietnam to perform plastic surgeryon his own dime. He created the International Children's Surgical Foundation in December 2005 to raise money so his work could continue when his savings ran dry. The foundation now manages to bring in just enough donations to stay in the black, covering Williams' airfare and hospital fee. The rewards are priceless.

接著他自費到很多國家，包括印度、秘魯、肯亞、玻利維亞、菲律賓、墨西哥、巴基斯坦、中國和泰國，尤其不忘回越南去動手術，並於2005年12月創立國際兒童手術基金會以籌募善款，當他存款用完時，工作才不致中斷。基金會現在只能設法募到足夠的款項，不致出現赤字，威廉斯主要用這些錢買機票和負擔住院費用。他所獲得的回報是無價的。