He was operated on by a team of volunteers at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) in Sydney, Australia, headed by senior plastic surgeon, Dr David Pennington.
His case was brought to the attention of the Australian public primarily through the television series RPA which was filmed at the hospital, and covered Safari's rehabilitation over the course of a year.
[1] Safari is from Kasaala, a small village in the Ikutha Division of Kitui District, in the Eastern Province of Kenya, a country in East Africa.
[3] As of 2007, Safari lives with foster parents Janet Seath and Frank Scaysbrook in the town of Buttaba,[4] in the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia.
On 7 January 2001, Seath & Scaysbrook's criticisms were aired on Channel 7's television program, "Today Tonight" (rival to Nine's "A Current Affair") and on Sydney radio station 2GB.