{"id":10021917,"date":"2023-10-25T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/uncategorized\/rishav-from-india\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:00:48","slug":"rishav-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/cleft-children\/rishav-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishav from Bihar, India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rishav’s family lives in a medium-sized town in the Indian state of Bihar. The state is densely populated: 100 million people live in an area less than one-third the size of Germany. Unfortunately, it is also one of the less economically developed Indian states. Many people still live in poverty. Rishav’s family makes their living as laborers. When their son is born with a serious cleft lip and palate<\/a>, his parents’ despair is great. What should they do now? Can Rishav drink at all? And what will their family and acquaintances say? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And indeed, when the family and neighbors see Rishav’s face, they recoil. Ignorance and misconceptions about cleft lip and palate are still widespread. The resulting negative and hostile reactions of their environment are an additional stress factor for the affected families in an already highly difficult and worrying situation. But this does not diminish Rishav’s parents’ love for their baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope for Rishav<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One evening, Rishav’s dad comes home with hopeful news. A colleague at work tells him that Rishav’s cleft can be treated. That an operation would help Rishav and that it would even be free. An unexpected glimmer of hope for Rishav’s parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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