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Shaina
Rowena thinks her daughter, one year-old Shaina, was born with a cleft lip because she fell from a hammock when she was seven months pregnant. “I feel sorry for my…
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Nicaragua
A grandmother’s chance to help change her granddaughter’s life
Born in 2005 with a bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, Dina Alexander has struggled to communicate for nearly a decade. Just last month, Dina’s grandmother Benigna heard on the…
Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, Operation Smile is a family’s only hope
A young mother wearing a white shawl sat patiently on a bench with sadness overwhelming her face. As she waited for her child’s medical evaluation at the Operation Smile medical…