Cleft Palate In The Film Smile Train

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Smile Pinki, a documentary that exposes the hardship of medical care for those with cleft lip and palate in India. Pankaj, a social worker, travels through rural parts of India to find those who have cleft disfiguration. India being a third world country causes there to be a lot of nutritional deficits that occur during birth, which cause the strange cleft phenomena. Pankaj seeks those with cleft and offers free medical care. Through Smile Train, a children’s charity organization, people around the world are able to donate to the cleft cause to provide free operations to countries with high rate of cleft palate. In one-village Pankaj encounters, Pinki who has a cleft palate and lip, she is a beautiful girl with a moderately bad cleft. Pinki