“When I asked the doctor what he could do for my baby he said that he could not do anything for us,” explains Woodley’s mother. “No matter what, I love my baby.”
One-year-old Woodley was born with a cleft lip and palate. The youngest of four children, Woodley and his siblings live with their mother and father in Haiti. Woodley’s father works as a policeman and his mother is a local vendor. They are able to meet their family’s basic needs with their income, but cannot afford the surgery required to correct Woodley’s cleft lip and palate.
“Woodley has difficulties to take the breast and eat, and he is experiencing ruining nose, flu and sometimes he has fever,” report our partners at Project Medishare. If surgery is performed, the Project Medishare team explains, “Woodley will have a normal face and be able to take the breast, so that he can eat and drink normally. This will change the situation of the family, and he will not have to experience discrimination because of his deformation.”
For $960 we can help fund the cleft lip and palate repair surgery Woodley’s parents wish for their young son. Let’s help Woodley grow up with the ability to receive proper nutrition and to experience life in public, free from discrimination or stigma!
