Razia is a 3 year old from the Wardak province in Afghanistan. She came to CURE Kabul with her mother to repair her cleft lip. Razia’s mother took her to a clinic in Wardak province, and the clinic referred her to our hospital in Kabul. Wardak is not very far from Kabul – approximately the distance between Washington DC and Baltimore or the distance between Dallas and Ft. Worth in Texas, but unlike those places, the security situation in that province in Afghanistan is very bad.

Most families do not travel easily from Wardak to Kabul, and so this family took a huge risk in bringing her to our hospital. But they wanted so much to heal their daughter – to allow her to look like other children and not be made fun of anymore.

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They were happy with the friendly and helpful staff here at the CURE Hospital, and everyone worked to make their stay away from the rest of their family very comfortable. Before she left, Razia’s mother said that she would will tell other family members and families in Wardak about the care they received from CURE.

Razia’s surgery was a success, and since she is a young child, the healing from the surgery will be quick and the scar minimal when she is a young woman. She will have a chance at a normal life in her village – to marry and make her family proud just like all the other women in her province thanks to the work of CURE.

Below, see Razia before and after her life-changing surgery at CURE Kabul.