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A Three Day Journey

How far would you walk to have your facial deformity fixed? What
if you had a child with the same deformity? In our country, this would never be an issue, even for the very poor. In the Andes, however, high above the Kausay Wasi Clinic in Coya, a Quechua Indian and his daughter with cleft lip and palate decided to make
a three day journey to come and meet the FACES doctors.

A full days walk in the jungle, waiting for a truck for 12 hours, and then a 12 hour ride in that truck eventually brought them to see the doctors in the clinic. After being evaluated, they waited another three days before time was found on the schedule for surgery.

And then, on a Thursday morning, the father holding his daughter in the prep area said goodbye to her as she was taken into one OR room while he at the same time was taken into the other.
Two teams of surgeons operated on them for about two hours. After the recovery period a new father and daughter were reunited with tears in their eyes. The tears were the only pay necessary for the FACES team.

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