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title: Gương mặt mới hướng về tương lai (A New Face for the Future)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-new-face-for-the-future-cleft-lip-surgery-1965-1969/
description: A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1592) uses before-and-after portraits of a girl named Huỳnh Thị Út and a photograph of surgeons operating at Bac Lieu
section: Collection
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# Gương mặt mới hướng về tương lai (A New Face for the Future)

A Vietnamese-language sheet (code SP-1592) uses before-and-after portraits of a girl named Huỳnh Thị Út and a photograph of surgeons operating at Bac Lieu hospital to report that an Australian surgical team repaired her cleft lip. The named patient and the arrows linking the photographs form a short personal story of recovered hope. The technique's tell is one named case standing for a wider programme.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GƯƠNG MẶT MỚI HƯỚNG
VỀ TƯƠNG LAI

ĐÂY EM HUỲNH THỊ ÚT ĐÃ TỪNG SỐNG NHỮNG NGÀY BUỒN KHỔ VỚI CHIẾC MÔI SỨT. NAY EM ĐÃ TÌM LẠI ĐƯỢC TIN TƯỞNG VÀ HY VỌNG SAU KHI NHỜ ĐOÀN GIẢI PHẪU ÚC ĐẠI LỢI "VÁ MÔI". TRƯỚC MẮT EM GIỜ ĐÂY LÀ TƯƠNG LAI TƯƠI SÁNG. →

NHỮNG BÁC SĨ ÚC ĐẠI LỢI ĐANG GIẢI PHẪU TẠI BỆNH VIỆN BẠC LIÊU. HỌ ĐÃ GIÚP CHO BIẾT BAO NGƯỜI BỊ TẬT SỨT MÔI NHƯ EM ÚT TÌM LẠI ĐƯỢC NIỀM VUI SỐNG. ↓

TRƯỚC KHI "VÁ MÔI" EM ÚT LÚC NÀO CŨNG CÓ MẶC CẢM KHỔ SỞ VÌ CHIẾC MÔI "KHÔNG ĐẸP" CỦA MÌNH.

SP-1592
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
A NEW FACE FOR THE FUTURE

This is the girl Huynh Thi Ut, who once lived sad and troubled days with a cleft lip. Now she has found confidence and hope again after the Australian surgical team 'repaired the lip'. Before her eyes now is a bright future. →

Australian doctors operating at Bac Lieu hospital. They have helped many people with cleft lips like Ut find the joy of life again. ↓

Before the 'lip repair', Ut always had a complex and suffered because of her 'unattractive' lip.

SP-1592
```

[← A Home and Land for Tran Van Vi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-home-and-land-for-tran-van-vi-1965-1969/) [A Strong Fortress (Một thành trì kiên cố) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-strong-fortress-1965-1969/)

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