“I am waiting for the surgery and I am very excited to see how it is going to be after that,” says Sophia. “I know that it will not be an easy thing and this why I want to say thank you for the opportunity to give me a better face shape.”
Sophia is a 16-year-old girl from Haiti. She was born with a cleft lip and has had difficulties talking because of this deformation. Sophia has not let this abnormality nor the insults she receives about her appearance affect her dedication to her schoolwork. “She is very intelligent and she has many friends who support her at school,” shares our medical partner Project Medishare.
Sophia’s mother is a farmer who does her best to provide for their family and support Sophia in school. Sophia’s mother was unable to afford the surgery Sophia needed when she was a child, but now, we can come together to give Sophia this transformational surgery.
$960 will cover the cost of the cleft lip and cleft palate repair surgery. “Surgery will be performed to fix the malformation of Sophia’s Lip, after the surgery Sophia will have no more abnormalities, feel much more included and loved by her friends and continue her life with her family,” her doctors say.