Baby Rachana was born with a cleft lip. Her young parents told us they were heartbroken and confused. “I couldn’t accept it when I saw her,” VannDen, the baby’s father told us. “We did two ultrasounds but doctors never saw it. When she was born, I felt shocked and helpless.”

Before Rachana was born, they couple worked at a shoe factory in Cambodia where they live. Together they earned a combined $8 a day. They knew they could never pay for an operation.

And because of the baby’s condition, Tola was forced to stop work to care for her full time.

But that didn’t stop Tola from thinking she may have caused the condition her baby was born with.

“My job was to glue shoes together. I did it every day. I kept wondering if the fumes or chemicals harmed my baby,” said Tola, the heartbroken m

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