What is magic about Face Forward, is any survivor -- any woman, or man or child who comes through Face Forward -- has to agree to do something great with their life.

David Alessi

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We realized if we were really going to help people, we needed a whole team around them. So I do the surgeries, which fixes the scars, but that’s really the minor part. Fixing the emotional scars can be even more challenging... one of our victims from London opened the door, and had a bucket of acid poured over his head. It was the wrong door. The acid attack was actually meant for someone else.

With an acid attack you essentially burn someone’s face off, you blind them, and horribly disfigure them ….