Tamima is one of five brothers and sisters from Gursum, a village in the far east of the Harar region. The children have been brought up single-handed by their widowed mother. Tamima, the youngest child, had her cleft lip repaired at two years, and her cleft palate was treated last year with the assistance of Project...

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Friya's cleft lip and palate caused problems from a very early age. As an infant, she couldn’t breastfeed so her family had to drip milk into her mouth from a bottle. As she grew older, food would spill out of her mouth and she would choke. Because of this she always ate alone, away from her family. Worst...

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  Mayrama fell ill with noma when she was aged just four years old. The disease left a gaping hole in her cheek, open to further infection, and her top teeth were lost. Determined to continue her education, she remained in school until second grade – but then discrimination from the school and village...

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Abdella loved playing football on the makeshift pitch near his house. He spent all his free time there with his friends – until the day when a hyena approached the pitch, desperate for food. While his friends watched in horror, the savage predator attacked Abdella, dragging him into a sugar-cane field. Abdella&...

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Lamdi and Meymuna have a lot in common. They work together as merchants, selling crops at the local market. They both have experienced abuse and discrimination from others in the market because of growths on their cheek. And they travelled together to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to receive treatment with the ...

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